How to Age Disgracefully is a unique up-lit story featuring quirky and memorable characters of a certain age.

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

Genre/Categories/Setting: Contemporary Fiction, Quirky Characters, London

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My Summary of How to Age Disgracefully:

Thanks #NetGalley @PenguinRandom @VikingBooks for a complimentary e ARC of #HowToAgeDisgracefully upon my request. All opinions are my own.

Members of a senior citizens’ center and the daycare next door combine their efforts and creative talents to save the building they meet in from an impending sale.

My Thoughts:

Sometimes we read for fun!

Quirky and Memorable Characters

If you love quirky characters, you will find an assortment of memorable ones here! Lydia is well-meaning, caring, and artistic, and is the new director of the senior center. She’s certainly surprised to meet Art, a failed actor and kleptomaniac, Daphne who is hiding a dark past, and Ruby, a knitter who gets her revenge and makes her opinions known through her yarn creations. How these seniors and a geriatric dog begin to work together to save the building is where the fun begins. When they enlist the help of the daycare next door, chaos ensues.

Up-Lit

A few thoughtful themes are presented, but the overall tone of the story is light, escapist, and entertaining. To best enjoy the story, you might need to exercise your ability to suspend disbelief.

Character-driven and Warmhearted

The author provides plenty of hi-jinks to drive this character-driven and warmhearted story. Amidst the shenanigans, we have acts of friendship and support, caring interventions, wild schemes, and one shocking revelation.

Recommending How to Age Disgracefully

I recommend this entertaining and lighthearted story for fans of quirky, well-seasoned characters and dog lovers. If you also enjoy sides of humor and unique stories, you might want to add this to your summer TBR.

My Rating:  4  Stars

Meet the Author of How to Age Disgracefully, Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer

Clare’s memoir – The Sober Diaries – has helped thousands of people worldwide to quit drinking.

Clare’s first novel – The Authenticity Project – was a BBC Radio 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting in the USA) was published in 2022, and How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024.

Clare lives in London and Cornwall with her long-suffering husband, three children and two border terriers. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her cooking, at the theatre, walking the South-West cliff path or wild swimming on the North Cornish coast.

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