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Welcome to First Line Friday! This is a weekly feature hosted by Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower. The idea is very simple: you just share the first line (or lines) of the book you are currently reading.
It’sa few weeks since I’ve done a First Lines Friday but I’m enjoying my current read so much that I really wanted to feature it today. It’s How To Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley and the prologue is such fun that I’d love to share the whole thing with you! However, that would take too long so I’ve restrained myself to one paragraph.
First Lines
Police Constable Penny Rogers had been right on the bumper of the minibus, siren wailing and lights flashing, for several miles before it finally pulled on to the hard shoulder of the motorway. Were they completely blind and deaf? As she approached the mismatched group of people staring down at her through the grimy windows, she realised that perhaps they actually were. At least half the passengers looked to be well over the age of seventy, and a few – bizarrely – under the age of five.
Full Book Details
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide
Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen’s Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners…and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don’t catch up with them first…
About the Author
Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising, before becoming a full-time writer.
Clare’s dark but hilarious memoir, The Sober Diaries, has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.
The Authenticity Project, Clare’s debut novel, was a BBC Radio 2 bookclub pick, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the RNA debut novel award and a Babelio award. It’s been translated into 29 languages.
The People on Platform 5 is Clare’s second novel, inspired by her fascination with inventing stories about her fellow passengers on her commute to work.
Clare lives in Fulham, London with her husband, three children and two border terriers.
So that’s my contribution to First Line Friday for this week! Would those first lines entice you to read on? Let me know what you think and if you are taking part in First Line Friday, pop a link to your post in the comments. Happy weekend reading everyone!
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