The bestselling novel by the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Stone Yard Devotional A Book of the Year for The Times, Observer, Independent and Good Housekeeping 'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice' MARIAN KEYES 'A rare pleasure . . . I was shocked by how unusual it felt to spend 275 pages exclusively in the company of older women' SUNDAY TIMES 'Riveting' ELIZABETH DAY 'Glorious . . . Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout' GUARDIAN 'A perfect, funny, insightful, novel about women, friendship, and ageing' NINA STIBBE 'Wood ably conveys that older women didn't used to be old, and that the experience of ageing is universally bewildering' OBSERVER 'Triumphantly brings to life the honest, inner lives of women' INDEPENDENT 'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book' TESSA HADLEY 'One sharp, funny, heartbreaking and gorgeously-written package. I loved it' PAULA HAWKINS Sylvie, Jude, Wendy