The age of discretion / Virginia Duigan.
Publication details: Edgecliff, NSW : Ventura Press, 2019.Description: 346 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925384666
- Older women -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
- Spouses -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction
- Dating services -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | DUI | Available | 069238 |
When the sex in Vivien Quarry's thirty-two-year marriage dwindles to nothing, her husband Geoff finally gives her a reason: 'Men are hardwired to not find older women attractive'. This unforgivable statement, uttered by a man long past his Adonis years, prompts Vivien to take drastic action. At sixty-seven, she most definitely doesn't feel 'past it', and so enlists the services of the enigmatic Martin Glover from The Discretion Agency. Under the sardonic eye of her oldest friend Jules, a world-famous operatic soprano facing the closing years of a brilliant career, Viv embarks on a series of wildly unpredictable, and sometimes hilariously cringeworthy dates -- with wholly unexpected consequences. Told with great humour and heart, the accomplished Virginia Duigan delivers a provocative and profoundly relatable story that proves living is not reserved for the young.