A Zibby Summer Reads pick! Clare Pooley, HOW TO AGE DISGRACEFULLY
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
British novelist Clare Pooley joins Zibby to discuss HOW TO AGE DISGRACEFULLY, an utterly hysterical, quirky, and reassuringly wise novel that centers around Lydia, a menopausal woman and empty-nester who is lonely and suspects her husband is having an affair… so she decides to help out at a senior citizen social club. She finds herself surrounded by very eclectic and mischievous seniors who, after an accident, must band together to save their community hall. Clare delves into her journey with sobriety and breast cancer and shares how an anonymous blog eventually led to a successful writing career. She also shares her perspectives on aging, highlighting the power of living every moment to the fullest, regardless of age.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
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| 0:42.5 | Claire Pooley is the author of How to Age disgracefully, a novel. Claire graduated from Cambridge |
| 0:48.3 | University and then spent 20 years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time |
| 0:53.2 | writer. Her debut novel, The Authenticity Project, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 29 languages. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting is her second novel. Her third novel, How to Age Disgracefully, is the one we talked about. Claire lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, and two border |
| 1:11.3 | terriers. Welcome, Claire. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books |
| 1:15.8 | to discuss how to age disgracefully. Congratulations. Oh, thank you. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you |
| 1:22.7 | for asking me. Oh, it's my pleasure. I'm always thinking about how to age, maybe not totally disgracefully, |
| 1:28.7 | but, you know, I'm not sure I'm going to be at Pasha, but maybe you never know in a visa. |
| 1:34.3 | Vita. Tell listeners what your book is about, please. |
| 1:38.4 | Oh, well, the story sort of revolves around a lady who's about the same age as me. She's called Lydia. |
| 1:44.5 | She's menopausal. her two daughters have left home and gone to university, and she thinks her husband |
| 1:50.9 | is having an affair. So she's not terribly happy. And she takes this job from the local council |
| 1:57.0 | working as a coordinator for this new senior citizen social club. |
| 2:01.8 | And she imagines that her day is going to be filled with older people playing bingo or |
| 2:08.4 | knitting or doing jigsaws. |
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