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"When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign--but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door--as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog--to save the building.
About the Author
Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising. Clare's memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking. The Authenticity Project, Clare's first novel, was a New York Times bestseller, a BBC Radio 2 book club pick, and winner of the RNA debut novel award. Clare's second novel - called The People on Platform 5 in the UK, and Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting in the USA - is coming in May/June 2022
