Lovers and Newcomers
Registered by LindyLouMac of Tywyn, Wales United Kingdom on 2/24/2012
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Amazon.co.uk. Product Description
From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of old friends reunited to start a new stage of their lives. Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.
From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of old friends reunited to start a new stage of their lives. Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.
Once again Rosie Thomas is exploring the themes of love and loss. The protagonists are all in their sixties, which maybe is why it resonated with me, being in this age group myself.
Six friends that have know each other since their university days have decided to set up home together, living in separate units on the estate in Norfolk that belongs to one of them. Intended to become a retirement haven for the group, things don't go according to plan.
Not a sensational story but a sensitively created novel, about learning how to be old! At times quite sad, so maybe not to be recommended to anyone feeling low and finding it difficult to cope with these current difficult times.
Six friends that have know each other since their university days have decided to set up home together, living in separate units on the estate in Norfolk that belongs to one of them. Intended to become a retirement haven for the group, things don't go according to plan.
Not a sensational story but a sensitively created novel, about learning how to be old! At times quite sad, so maybe not to be recommended to anyone feeling low and finding it difficult to cope with these current difficult times.
Journal Entry 3 by LindyLouMac at Tywyn Promenade in Tywyn, Wales United Kingdom on Friday, May 22, 2020
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I'm so glad it has found a home with you. I hope you enjoy reading it and that you might take a few moments to jot down here what you thought about the book, or about finding it, or about bookcrossing.
You don't have to join or sign up or anything to bookcrossing to leave a comment here but if you do join, you will receive emails to alert you when others make a journal entry for this book and track its travels across the world. If you decide to join bookcrossing, now that you have discovered the site, I'd be delighted if you would mention me - LindyLouMac - as the person who introduced you to the site.
Happy reading
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