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Loading... The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Villageby Joanna Nell
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  mimbza | Apr 23, 2024 |    ) Kimberlyhi | Apr 15, 2023 | The author has done a great job with the characters and situations found in the retirement village. A very enjoyable light read. ( ) PhillipThomas | Nov 30, 2022 | A few laugh out loud moments but a little predictable. (  ) HelenBaker | Aug 22, 2022 | ) Fliss88 | Sep 21, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor. Following a very minor traffic accident, things have turned frosty with her grown-up children and she is afraid they are trying to take away her independence. Noticing her memory isn't what it used to be, Peggy is taking ever more inventive steps to cover up her dwindling faculties. The highlight of Peggy's day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim. She dreams of inviting the handsome widower - treasurer of the Residents' Committee and one of the few eligible men in the village - to an intimate dinner. But why would an educated man like Brian, a chartered accountant no less, look twice at Peggy? As a woman of a certain age, she fears she has become invisible, even to men in their eighties. But a chance encounter with an old school friend she hasn't seen in five decades - the glamorous fashionista ANGIE VALENTINE - sets Peggy on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. No library descriptions found. 
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This is a humorous domestic drama set in an Australian retirement village. Joanna Nell is an English born author and doctor and now lives in Sydney. The main character is 79 year old Peggy Smart, whose life as a widow has become rather mundane and beige, punctuated only by popping pills out of the blister packs and watching elderly eligible widower Brian walk past in the mornings, and fending off her childrens’ attempts to consign her to a nursing home. Then her old school friend the glamorous fast-living Angie Valentine appears at the village creating a whirlpool of colour and excitement around her. Angie soon turns Peggie’s life and wardrobe upside down and helps her challenge some of the roles that have been set for her, particularly that of a frail, invisible older woman.
I enjoyed this story, it was fun, and made some insightful points about aging, although it was fairly slow moving. My only complaint was there was probably too much medical minutiae not really necessary to the flow of the story. (