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by Clare Pooley
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.
To what audience would you recommend I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home? Is there another book or author you feel has a similar theme or style?
...o which I would recommend this book are older adults in search of a cozy mystery and readers who enjoyed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman or How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley.
-Andrea_B
"A lovably quirky, reassuringly wise, and memorably inspiring romp that shatters ageist stereotypes." —Booklist (starred review)
"Rollicking...Pooley's clever and delightfully farcical scenes are laugh-out-loud funny, often thanks to the frank Daphne. This ought to satisfy Pooley's fans and win her new ones." —Publishers Weekly
"With gangs, heists and stakeouts, this is not your ordinary novel about senior citizens. Prepare to be thoroughly entertained." —The Observer (UK)
"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
"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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Clare Pooley 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, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. Pooley lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, and two border terriers. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting is her second novel.
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