Bøker av Clare Pooley

When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hideLydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz.She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. It turns out that their ideas about how to spend their afternoons are very different.After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned mongrel, set out to save it.They might not be able to save the hall, but they might just save each other - if their pasts don't catch up with them first...

'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth JonesWhen age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hideDaphne 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...

Den eksentriske journalisten Iona Iverson tar toget til jobb, hver dag kl 08.05. Hun reiser sammen med de samme menneskene hver dag: Den søte bokormen, Den ensomme tenåringen, sykepleieren, og den tilsynelatende framgangsrike manngrisen som alltid sitter veldig bredbeint.Som en erfaren pendler kjenner hun til de uskrevne reglene: man må ha en jobb å reise til, man må ikke spise varm mat på toget, og det viktigste: ikke snakk med noen! Men, så setter en av dem en drue i halsen og blir nesten kvalt. Denne hendelsen skaper en kjedereaksjon og plutselig begynner de å snakke sammen og nye vennskap er i ferd med å blomstre. .Men, når Ionas eget liv faller sammen, vil hennes nye venner stille opp for henne?

Julian Jessop er lei av å skjule den dype ensomheten han kjenner på. Han bestemmer seg for å skrive sannheten om livet sitt i en liten grønn notatbok som han legger han igjen på den lokale kafeen. Han hadde ikke sett for seg at kaféeieren, Monica, skulle ta kontakt etter å ha lest historien hans. Heller ikke at hun skulle bli inspirert til å skrive sin egen historie. Lite visste Julian og Monica at ærlighetsprosjektet deres skulle få store konsekvenser for andre mennesker, og føre til både vennskap og kjærlighet.

A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living. Think Bridget Jones Dries Out!