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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction Romance fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joanna Nell |
ISBN: | 9780733642500 0733642500 |
OCLC Number: | 1163800134 |
Notes: | "It's never too late to grow old disgracefully."--Cover "The new novel The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker extract inside."--Cover |
Description: | 370 pages ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Joanna Nell. |
Abstract:
The life of 79-year-old pensioner Peggy Smart is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. Following a very minor traffic accident, things have turned frosty with her grown-up children and she is afraid they are trying to take away her independence. Noticing her memory isn't what it used to be, Peggy is taking ever more inventive steps to cover up her dwindling faculties. The highlight of Peggy's day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim. She dreams of inviting the handsome widower - treasurer of the Residents' Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village - to an intimate dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, a chartered accountant no less, look twice at Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears she has become invisible, even to men in their eighties. But a chance encounter with an old school friend she hasn't seen in five decades - the glamorous fashionista Angie Valentine - sets Peggy on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
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