Live a Little-Howard Jacobson, 9781787331440

See Photos, A clean paperback in like new condition 100% of the item price goes to charity. Combined postage available\u2014please message before buying. Postage covers actual costs including eBay fees and packing.\nLive a Little\nHoward Jacobson\nPaperback\nA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.\nAt the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. \nShe spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs.\nShimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he's whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. \nUnlike Beryl, he forgets nothing - especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung ove.