No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Virginia Ironside
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141025834
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Illustrations no pictures

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 5 July 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too? Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.

Author Biography

In the 'sixties Virginia Ironside wrote a rock column for the Daily Mail before undertaking the role of agony aunt at Woman, where she worked for ten years. She now writes a weekly column in the Independent. Virginia lives in West London, and has one son and one grandson.

Reviews

Wise, funny and heart-warming Daily Mail Poignant and utterly engaging The Times