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"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." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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`Poignant and utterly engaging' The Times
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original, so entertaining and so thought-provoking' Daily Express
`This hilarious diary of a mature woman certainly gives Bridget Jones a run
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`Hilarious...It had me laughing out loud on the bus' Woman & Home
`Immense wit and charm' Psychologies
`The babyboomers' answer to Bridget Jones' The Independent --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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