How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel Audiobook, by Clare Pooley Play Audiobook Sample

How to Age Disgracefully: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Clare Corbett Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593907764

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

64

Longest Chapter Length:

16:13 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

12 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

07:40 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.

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Funny, warm, wise, and a total riot....Clare Pooley is the best at marshalling a group of madly endearing characters, flicking her whip, and sending them careening off on a rollicking, entrancing, breakneck journey.

— Beth Morrey, international bestselling author of Clover Hendry's Day Off 

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  • Utterly hysterical and full of heart, with hugely loveable characters, a dialogue that had me in stitches and many profound moments. A totally wonderful, spirit-lifting read!

    — Hellie Acton, author of Begin Again
  • Utterly hysterical and full of heart, with hugely loveable characters, a dialogue that had me in stitches and many profound moments. A totally wonderful, spirit-lifting read!

    — Hellie Acton, author of Begin Again
  • “Clare Pooley is the master of writing an ensemble cast.

    — Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet “Fans of Fredrik Backman and Gail Honeyman—make room on your shelves for Clare Pooley.
  • “Reading this book felt like a warm hug and its endearing, witty characters like old friends (Daphne is my hero!). I can’t recommend it enough.

    — Tess Amy, author of The Confidence Games
  • “Reading this book felt like a warm hug and its endearing, witty characters like old friends (Daphne is my hero!). I can’t recommend it enough.

    — Tess Amy, author of The Confidence GamesPraise for Clare Pooley:“Clare Pooley is the master of writing an ensemble cast.
  • “Clare Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age. HOW TO AGE DISGRACEFULLY is a love letter to the human spirit.

    — Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script
  • “Reading this book felt like a warm hug and its endearing, witty characters like old friends (Daphne is my hero!). I can’t recommend it enough.

    — Tess Amy, author of The Confidence Games“Another stunning book from Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully is guaranteed to warm your heart and brighten your days. Enthralling, vibrant, deliciously eccentric and just so funny.
  • A lovably quirky, reassuringly wise, and memorably inspiring romp that shatters ageist stereotypes.

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About Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley is the author of two novels. She graduated from Cambridge University, and then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel, The Authenticity Project, has been translated into twenty-nine languages.

About Clare Corbett

Clare Corbett, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. After winning the Carlton Hobbs audition, she was chosen to be on BBC Radio. After leaving BBC she went on to narrate several children’s books, including Over the Moon, I Rule Dogsbottom School, and Boy Beware. She has transitioned into reading young adult novels, including many installments in the Doctor Who series.