No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub

Virginia Ironside is a journalist, agony aunt, and author. She has one son and two grandsons.

Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too? 
 
Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.

The Rage of Bereavement

'You'll Get Over It'

Virginia Ironside lives in London W12. As well as being a journalist she has also written several novels and children's books, including Made for Each Other. She has been a problem page editor - at Woman and the Sunday Mirror - for many years and also has a regular column in the Independent.

The death of a loved one is the most traumatic experience any of us face. No two people cope with it the same way: some cry while others remain dry-eyed; some discover growth through pain, others find arid wastes; some feel angry, others feel numb. Virginia Ironside deals with this complicated and sensitive issue with great frankness and insight, drawing on other's people's accounts as well as her own experiences.

Virginia Ironside

A perfectly witty rant, touching without being cloying, wonderfully heartless, leaves us with the urge to live every day as if it is our last

Why Growing Old is Great

Getting old? 
Get over it! 
 
For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don't matter: 'you're out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through.' 
 
Well, enough is enough. 
 
Because getting old is great. For a start you no longer need to care what anyone thinks. You can let - if you've got any left - your hair down. No one will tell you off for grumbling. And no one minds if you forget (or pretend to forget) who you're talking to. Being rude has never been so easy - or liberating. And that's not all you can get away with now that you've seen it all (and done most of it) . . . 
 
Let Virginia Ironside take you through the top twenty reasons why getting old is good for you - and let the young and dumb keep their callow youth!

Virginia Ironside

Praise for The Virginia Monologues

A perfectly witty rant, touching without being cloying, wonderfully heartless, leaves us with the urge to live every day as if it is our last

Books by Virginia Ironside

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