First Published: 2018
SPOILERS!!
Peggy Smart is a seventy-nine-year-old woman who lives in a retirment village. Life has become quite uneventful since she lost her husband. She finds her two children, David and Jenny, overbearing, and she suspects that they would like to take her to a nursing home. That is why she tries to hide the fact that she sometimes forgets things.
In the village Peggy has taken a shine to Brian, an attractive widower, but she thinks he is not interested in her, and she does not feel brave enough to flirt with him.
A turning point for Peggy is when an old friend appears in the village. It is Angie, a friend from when she was at school, and they also worked in a department store. Angie is nothing like Peggy. She has been married four times, and she has always been very attractive and led an unconditional kind of life. When Angie turns up, she talks Peggy into changing some things about her like the clothes she wears and her hairdo.
Angie also comes up with the idea of creating a committee for some social event in the village. So apart from Angie and Peggy, the committee is formed by Brian, Celia and Jim, who is a former rock star.
This is an entertaining book, and I love Bridge and her peculiarities and naivete.
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