Penelope Lively

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Within the past month I have been to an 80th and a 90th birthday lunch, both of them highly festive occasions.

  • Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old

    Jane Miller

    Virago, pp. 247

Within the past month I have been to an 80th and a 90th birthday lunch, both of them highly festive occasions. And now here is an entertaining, erudite and thought-provoking meditation on the matter of age by Jane Miller (aged 78). The so-called twilight years are no longer quite that, for some of us.

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