'' Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind '' - Ruth Jones 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 70 th 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...

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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.

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'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' Ruth Jones, bestselling author of Love, Untold
'Breezily entertaining' The Times
'A celebration of life at every stage' - Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things
'*Warm, witty perfection' Good Housekeeping

Ageing is inevitable. Growing up is optional.

Daphne is fiery and fabulous. She just needs to get out and meet people. But when an accident brings a teen dad, an empty nester and a has-been actor into her world, they aren't necessarily who she'd had in mind. And it soon becomes clear that they all have a story to tell.

But can these new friendships survive the secrets that will be revealed?

Readers love How to Age Disgracefully:

**'Totally barking, but warm, witty and a little bit wise... A little life-affirming gem of a novel'**
'**A witty, engaging story with characters you care about'**
'The best book I've read in a long time!'
'I couldn't put this book down . . . wonderful!'
'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book'
'An absolute joy of a read'