By Clare Pooley
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Blurb
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
Category: Fiction
Read if you Like:
💎 Found family
💎 Ensemble comedy
💎 Senior citizens
💎 Mischief and mayhem
💎 Daycare children
My Thoughts:
How to Age Disgracefully wasn't what I was expecting but I ended up really enjoying it either way! I grabbed it from the romance section and it's not a romance, though it does have a small romance plot. It has elements of mystery and self discovery as well with a ton of comedy thrown in! I loved getting to know and like the different characters and I enjoyed the sense of found family it has.
In the author's note, Clare Pooley talks about not wanting to write seniors who aren't perfect but also aren't naive characters who just provide hugs and candy (I'm totally paraphrasing). The result is hilarious and more accurate. I also loved reading some of the younger characters who were going through difficult life transitions.
If you like a book that will make you laugh and want a badass fake grandmother to fix your life I recommend this one! It definitely has some twists that will surprise you.
I listened to the audio for this one and enjoyed it! Clare Corbett did a great job with the narration. She was a new to me narrator but some romance readers may recognize her from some of Sophie Kinsella's titles.
Thanks to PRH audio and Random House UK for providing me with an ARC. All opinions are my own.
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