How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Poole and read by Clare Corbett

 

Thank you to PRH Audio for the #gifted audiobook #PRHAudio

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley read by Clare Corbett is one of the funniest books I have listened to this year. The book starts with a minibus that is being stopped by the police looking for a criminal, and everyone on the bus begins to confess to a crime. We spend the rest of the story finding out what happened to get to that point.

The story is from told from the perspective of four of the characters. The narrator did an incredible job differentiating the characters and making the story come alive for me. I found the characters charming, engaging and laugh out loud funny. I also appreciated the deeper issues that challenged the characters, the mystery of trying to figure out their back story, and how they all pulled together to save their community center.

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley was filled with humor, great characters, and an interesting ending. The audio book read by Clare Corbett was amazing. This will be one of my favorites of 2024. I highly recommend, and hope you will listen to the audio book!


I was given a copy from PRH audio and not required to write a positive review.

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time mum.

Realising that her ‘wine o’clock’ habit had spiralled out of control, Clare started writing a blog, Mummy was a Secret Drinker, which has had nearly three million hits. Her memoir, The Sober Diaries was published in 2017 to critical acclaim.

Clare’s debut novel - The Authenticity Project, was inspired by her own experience of exposing the rather grubby truth about her own seemingly perfect life. It’s published in thirty-two languages, was a Radio 2 Bookclub pick, winner of the RNA Debut Novel Award and a New York Times bestseller.

Clare’s second novel - The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting in the USA/Canada) was published in Spring 2022.
Clare’s third novel - How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024.
Clare’s talks include a TEDx talk - ‘Making Sober Less Shameful’, a talk for Radio 4’s Four Thought, and numerous podcast interviews.
Clare lives in Fulham, London with her husband, three children and two border terriers.

Clare Corbett is a British actress and a winner (2000) of a Carleton Hobbs Radio Award.[1] She studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama[2] and has appeared in television programmes such as Casualty, Eastenders and Doctors,[3] as well as a number of radio plays (including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis and Dr. Zhivago),[4] and video games, including the Dark Souls series along with other Soulslikes by FromSoftware.

She has narrated numerous audiobooks including Vanessa and Her Sister, Shopaholic to the Stars,[4] and The Girl on the Train,[5] which won the 2016 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.[6]

In 2017 she was nominated for "Best Supporting Actor/Actress" in the BBC Audio Drama Awards[7] for her role as Franciska Lazar in the drama serial Keeping the Wolf Out.