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Read an exclusive extract from ‘The Secret Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village’ by Joanna Nell

A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship

If you fell for Harold Fry and The Keeper of Lost Things, you will love Peggy Smart and The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village

It’s never too late to grow old disgracefully…

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. The highlight of Peggy’s day is watching her neighbour Brian head out for his morning swim.

Peggy 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.

Can she channel her ‘inner Helen Mirren’ and find love and friendship in her twilight years?

Read an extract from The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village here and don’t forget to order your copy – out now exclusively early in eBook!