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Virginia Ironside
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Audio CD
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Publisher | Penguin | ||
ISBN | 9780141806761 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
'Certainly not!' said Marie Sharp, when a friend suggests she join a bookclub when she turns sixty. 'Bookclub people always seem to have to wade through "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" or, groan, "The God of Small Things". They feel they've forever got to poke their brain with a pointed stick to keep it working. But either you've got a lively brain or you haven't. And anyway, I don't want to be young and stimulated any more. Those oldies who spend their lives bicycling across Mongolia at eighty and para-gliding at ninety, aren't brilliant specimens of old age. No, they're just tragic failures who haven't come to terms with aging. I want to start doing old things, not young things'. Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a Walk-In Bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie, is all the same, getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it! She's a bit pre-occupied about whether to give up sex - 'Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!' - but there are compensations, like falling in love all over again - but this time with her baby grandson, Gene. Curmudgeonly, acute, and funny, this fictionalised audio diary is what happens when grumpy old women meet 'Bridget Jones'
Review
The story starts, with the main character saying I'm going to keep a diary. I've kept one before when I was at school, but when we had our first child then we kept a joint diary but we still kept our own single diary so that you can write down, in your own special way what you really think about the other half.
This is a really funny disc set, I could not stop laughing from beginning to end it was so amusing I found myself recounting bits to the family. Maria is at some point thinking what she can do to to bring some normality back in her life. When she falls in love again with her new baby grandson - I think many grandmas get to feel like this- what can I do now and then other things happen like grandchildren etc and life becomes worth living all over again.
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