No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club (Paperback)

Virginia Ironside

ISBN 10: 0452289238 / ISBN 13: 9780452289239

Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc, New York, 2008

Beschreibung

Paperback. Read Virginia Ironside's posts on the Penguin Blog.A screamingly funny and poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age Marie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. Shes already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties, career and children, marriage and divorce. Now shes ready to settle into a quiet, blissfully boring routine. No Italian classes or gym memberships or bicycle trips across Europe, thank you very much! Marie just wants to put her feet up and start doing old things. Shes even sworn off men! But as it turns out, life still has some surprises in store, the biggest of which is a new grandson on the way. Whats more, Archie, her old childhood crush, suddenly reenters her life, and her closest friend falls seriously ill. Armed with a biting sense of humor, Marie wrestles with a life that refuses to follow her plansand may still offer more possibilities than she realizes. This wonderfully astute novel based on the author's own experiences is the funny--and often poignant--fictionalized diary of an older woman a decade or two past her prime and content to leave it all behind her. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780452289239

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club (Paperback)
• Verlag: Penguin Putnam Inc, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0452289238
• ISBN-13: 9780452289239
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Read Virginia Ironside's posts on the Penguin Blog.

A screamingly funny and poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age

Marie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. She’s already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties, career and children, marriage and divorce. Now she’s ready to settle into a quiet, blissfully boring routine. No Italian classes or gym memberships or bicycle trips across Europe, thank you very much! Marie just wants to put her feet up and “start doing old things.”

She’s even sworn off men! But as it turns out, life still has some surprises in store, the biggest of which is a new grandson on the way. What’s more, Archie, her old childhood crush, suddenly reenters her life, and her closest friend falls seriously ill. Armed with a biting sense of humor, Marie wrestles with a life that refuses to follow her plans—and may still offer more possibilities than she realizes.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Virginia Ironside is a journalist, agony aunt, and author. She served as an editor for Woman and the Sunday Mirror for many years, and has regular columns in The Independent and The Oldie. She has written books in children's and adult fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and memoir, and is published worldwide. She lives in London.