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The Isle of Wight in the summers of the 1800s Queen Victoria holidayed here At music festivals in the summer of love hundreds of thousands of people got stoned here And in the summer of 2020 Hunter and Claire escaped lockeddown North London for a weeks holiday here They fell in love with its sleepy charm and ended up buying a Grade 2listed home in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of RydeLove in Old Age tells the story of their first year on the island It is a journey of discovery in a forgotten corner of England an exploration of the attraction of meeting new people and new places in old age and a celebration of flat sandy beaches Filled with Davies insatiable curiosity for people and places and his irrepressible and ironic sense of humourA wryly humorous memoir Love in Old Age will delight fans of Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking and Nora Ephrons I Remember Nothing