Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives. So when life gave them lemons and their loved ones let them down, they pooled their resources and bought a dressmakers shop on the corner of Penny Lane. And they’ve been doing just fine ever since.
But one day, while studying her tired eyes and shapeless figure in the mirror, sixty-two-year-old Tess realised that she doesn’t want her life to be just fine anymore. She wants it to be extraordinary. For as long as she can remember she’s put everyone else first. Now she wants to rediscover herself – and experience the kind of whirlwind adventure that will have the power make her smile when she’s confined to the armchair of a retirement home.
With the encouragement of fun-loving and quirky Orla, Tess joins an over-the-hill dating agency and the two friends book a singles cruise around the Mediterranean. And that’s when their adventure of a lifetime really begins…
A totally uplifting, heart-warming, hilarious page turner about embracing the moment, learning to love again and the joy of second chances. Perfect for fans of The Kicking the Bucket List and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane was such an enjoyable story about the pitfalls of dating and rediscovering yourself in your golden years along side your best friend. I could identify with the storyline of trying to lose weight and also find a suitable date for an upcoming family wedding.
Much of the story focusing on the dating site Tess and Orla join. They were sent on some hilarious dates. It reminded me of some of my own crazy first dates when I was single. 😳
The two also embark on a Greek Island Cruise together that was equally entertaining. I tried to imagined myself on this cruise as I’ve always wanted to take a cruise, and now more than ever!
This book is for anyone who has survived a dating site, lived through an embarrassing divorce, or just wants to enjoy the adventures of two aging best friends.
The Runaway Wife is Dee’s first (published) novel but in fact she wrote her very first book – at around seven years of age! This was a love story which she duly illustrated before sewing all the pages together up one side. Writing was what she ‘was good at’ in school and she won several essay competitions, but then life got in the way and she didn’t pick up a pen again until after retirement.
Dee left Scotland and headed for London at the beginning of the swinging sixties. After typing her way round the West End she became an air stewardess on long haul routes with BA (then BOAC) for eight years. After that she did market research at Heathrow for both the government statistics and for BA, she became a sales rep and was the receptionist at the Thames Television Studios in Teddington when they had the franchise.
She then ran a small B&B for ten years in Cornwall, where she lives with her husband. Dee has one son and two grandsons who live locally.
Her second book, The Getaway Girls, was published in July 2018.
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Book Review~ The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane, @DMacDonaldauth, @Bookouture, Author: Dee MacDonald Genre: Contemporary Pub Date: April 24, 2019 Publisher: Bookouture Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Synopsis Tess and Orla have been best friends throughout most of their adult lives.
