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Fri, 03/21/2008

Virginia Ironside, author of No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club - our blogger for the week of 3/24:

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Virginia Ironside is our guest blogger during the week of March 17th. If you have any questions for Virginia Ironside, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about No! I Don't Want To Join A Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year:

Marie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. She's already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties, career and children, marriage and divorce. Now she's ready to settle into a quiet, blissfully boring routine. No Italian classes or gym memberships or bicycle trips across Europe, thank you very much! Marie just wants to put her feet up and "start doing old things."

She's even sworn off men! But as it turns out, life still has some surprises in store, the biggest of which is a new grandson on the way. What's more, Archie, her old childhood crush, suddenly reenters her life, and her closest friend falls seriously ill. Armed with a biting sense of humor, Marie wrestles with a life that refuses to follow her plans-and may still offer more possibilities than she realizes.

About Virginia Ironside

Virginia Ironside is a journalist, agony aunt, and author, divorced living in West London. She has one son and one grandson. She is the author of You'll Get Over It: The Rage of Bereavement and the novel No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub (2006).

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