How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

At 70, Daphne has shut herself off from the world for the past fifteen years. Impulsively, she decides to join the senior citizens social group at the local community center to try and make some friends. Art, an actor whose job prospects have dried up, becomes a member too. When part of the ceiling of the building collapses at the first meeting, the group might be over before it's even started, since there's talk of the local council closing the center. Lydia, who runs the club, might then lose her job, and teenage single dad Ziggy will not have the low cost daycare that's also housed in the building, which he needs for his baby daughter, Kylie. Told through the eyes of Daphne, Art, Lydia, and Ziggy, the novel highlights the group's camaraderie and friendship and their aim to keep the center open. A great read-alike for Freya Sampson and The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett.