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Joanna Nell´s life-affirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and A Man Called Ove.

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A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper of Lost Things and Three Things About Elsie.

´Hugely entertaining . . . funny and heart-warming´ Woman & Home

´A gentle, warm-hearted book that had me rooting for all the characters and laughing out loud at points´´ LIBBY PAGE, author of The Lido 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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Hugely entertaining . . . funny and heart-warming Woman & Home

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Nell, Joanna

Joanna Nell was born in the Midlands and graduated from Oxford University with a medical degree in 1991.
In 2003 she moved to Australia where she now works as a GP with a passion for women´s health and care of the elderly.
Joanna writes character-driven stories of self-discovery for women of a certain age, creating young-at-heart characters who break the rules and defy society´s expectations.
She lives on Sydney´s Northern Beaches with her husband and two children.

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