All are funny, touching and as beautifully observed as would be expected from the author of the phenomenal bestsellers ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ and ‘Talk to the Hand’. These six women are in their forties and each has a very different and sometimes surprising story to tell, from the husband who unexpectedly disappears to the dreaded ‘other woman’, and the sisters who take an adventurous trip on the Nile together.

At A Certain Age, women gain a huge confidence about themselves because they realise that life’s too short to waste. In the tradition of Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ come Lynne Truss’ female monologues: six bittersweet tales of love, romance, friendship and family from the classic ‘BBC Radio 4’ series. Sad, funny and, of course, exquisitely written superb, finely crafted’ ‘Daily Mail’. This book contains the original six radio monologues written by Lynne Truss, author of the phenomenal bestsellers ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ and ‘Talk to the Hand’. So it happens that Osborne’s research trip is interrupted by a trainload of anxious hacks from London Lillian the fluffy blonde secretary, Michelle the sub editor who has a secret crush on Osborne, and Trent Carmichael, crime novelist and bestselling author of S is for… Unbeknown to Osborne, driving down to Devon to interview Angela in her country retreat, the sleepy magazine has been taken over by the new management. This week his ‘Me and My Shed’ column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer.

Osborne Lonsdale, a down at heel journalist mysteriously attractive to women, writes a regular celebrity interview for Come Into the Garden. After all, it was a bit like being dead but not lying down’. Nevertheless, it required strength of character for those intimately acquainted with the title not to take the comments personally. ‘It was nobody’s fault, this widely held assumption that Come Into the Garden had long since sought eternal peace in the great magazine rack in the sky.

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