Lucy Lethbridge

Shenanigans at Sixty

No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub

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It’s walking on eggshells reading Virginia Ironside’s novel of defiance among the sixty-somethings. Her heroine Marie doesn’t just hate bookclubs, she also hates Open University courses, counselling, religion, men in suits, the country, and people who go to the theatre.

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