ARGONAUT BOOKS

This book tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Reviews There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story ... a delight to readObserverThe book is a moving and humorous account of old age, unsparing about its indignities, unflinching from the inevitability that the end can not be many years away, but full of joy at the way life keeps on,...Read More