The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
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Journal Entry 1 by beeofgoodcheer from Stowmarket, Suffolk United Kingdom on Sunday, September 2, 2018
It's never too late to grow old disgracefully...
The life of 79-year-old pensioner Peggy Smart is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. The highlight of Peggy's day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim.
Peggy dreams of inviting the handsome widower - treasurer of the Residents' Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village - to an intimate dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, a chartered accountant no less, look twice at Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears she has become invisible, even to men in their eighties.
But a chance encounter with an old school friend she hasn't seen in five decades - the glamorous fashionista Angie Valentine - sets Peggy on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
Can she channel her 'inner Helen Mirren' and find love and friendship in her twilight years?
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There's a little bit of a trend, I feel, of "pensioners behaving badly" or even "pensioners behaving like people" fiction, and this is another one. It's quite lightweight and fluffy, and it was a nice summer read. I did wonder a little about learned helplessness in our main heroine, Peggy, but she came good, of course.
I guess the themes of love, friendship, loss and aging are universal, and in fact I didn't really twig that this book was set in Australia. There's not a lot of scene setting or local colour, but the characters are colourful enough.
It passed the time pleasantly, but the fact that - although not anywhere near 80 - I struggled to remember the character names says a lot.
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The life of 79-year-old pensioner Peggy Smart is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. The highlight of Peggy's day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim.
Peggy dreams of inviting the handsome widower - treasurer of the Residents' Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village - to an intimate dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, a chartered accountant no less, look twice at Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears she has become invisible, even to men in their eighties.
But a chance encounter with an old school friend she hasn't seen in five decades - the glamorous fashionista Angie Valentine - sets Peggy on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
Can she channel her 'inner Helen Mirren' and find love and friendship in her twilight years?
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There's a little bit of a trend, I feel, of "pensioners behaving badly" or even "pensioners behaving like people" fiction, and this is another one. It's quite lightweight and fluffy, and it was a nice summer read. I did wonder a little about learned helplessness in our main heroine, Peggy, but she came good, of course.
I guess the themes of love, friendship, loss and aging are universal, and in fact I didn't really twig that this book was set in Australia. There's not a lot of scene setting or local colour, but the characters are colourful enough.
It passed the time pleasantly, but the fact that - although not anywhere near 80 - I struggled to remember the character names says a lot.
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