Life in the Old Girls Yet
by Celia Anderson
Vee is nervous about returning to the village of Willowbrook. Not only is Dragonfly Cottage – the house her late mum left her – in need of a total refurb, but the neighbours still remember Vee as a troublesome teen, even though she’s now in her fifties.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
…spiderwebs hung from every corner. It felt like the place where depressed flies came to die.
‘Winnie, I’ve never seen anyone be so keen to go on a banana boat.’ ‘And I only fell off once,’ said Winnie, preening herself. ‘I showed those youngsters a thing or two, didn’t I, Beryl? You were hanging on for dear life.’ ‘Yes, it was two things you showed them, if I remember rightly. Your bikini top came right off. That lifeguard will probably never be the same again.’
This was the life. Mother wouldn’t have approved at all, which made the idea even more appealing.
It wasn’t much fun being a teenager, when I look back on that year. We were full of our own importance some of the time but totally lacking in confidence the rest of it.
My Review:
This was a fun and amusing read with well-balanced hits of family drama and inner turmoil amongst the wry wit and acerbic observations. I’m new to Celia Anderson, shame on me for not noticing this crafty scribbler before. I enjoy her well-textured and agile word skills, snarky humor, and how she totally had me on the hook to unravel what happened in 1985.
Celia Anderson lives with her husband as far away from the sea as you can possibly get in mainland UK. She dreams of buying a cottage on the coast, which explains the regular appearances in her books of seaside places with wide, sandy beaches. Celia loves walking, reading, having large, bubbly baths, eating, and drinking wine. Over the years, she has found that all of these activities, bar the first, may be done simultaneously, although this can be messy.