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A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley 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. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
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The Senior Citizen's Social Club seems like the place to be & age truly feels like just a number. A witty and fun read. The characters are absolutely delightful & interesting, and the events taking place, although somewhat unorthodox and too far-fetched, are very amusing. There were times that I actually laughed out while reading the book. The sly British humor does all the magic. I wouldn't say it's a literary masterpiece, but why should it? An easy to read, funny & uplifting book, that might be exactly what you need when life feels a bit too much. I can guarantee you'll definitely have a good time reading it.
I don’t know how else to describe this book outside of just saying how fun. Just truly a delightful novel with a gang of misfits and underdogs that you can’t help but root for. You never delve too deep into anyone’s backstory, but, you don’t really need to. This reads like a twee British version of an already twee Wes Anderson film, and I mean that with all the love in my heart.