No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub

Aug 9, 2025 8:41 AM

Author:Virginia Ironside

Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too?

Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.

Reviews

Wise, funny and heart-warming

—— Daily Mail

Poignant and utterly engaging

—— The Times

There's a razor sharp edge to Paul Howard's satire on modern Dublin

—— IRISH EXAMINER

Un-focking-missable

—— IN DUBLIN

Hilarious

—— SUNDAY WORLD

Strange and beautiful

—— The Times

Robert Chandler's tenderly attentive rendering of The Railway perfectly captures the dreamy, circling music of Hamid Ismailov's prose

—— Chandrahas Choudhury , Daily Telegraph

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

Anna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion

—— InStyle

Warm, poignant and very funny

—— Marian Keyes

Hugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully

—— Daily Express

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

—— Sunday Sport

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