• Lovers and Newcomers

  • By: Rosie Thomas
  • Narrated by: Rula Lenska
  • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.

To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink, and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs forever: power, health, and stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can’t be put back.
©2010 Rosie Thomas (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Coming of Age Family Life Literary Fiction Humorous Women's Fiction Romance
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Enjoyable but not her best

I quite enjoyed this story but it had a suggestion of antiquity which I thought could have been explored more in depth.