A Certain Age

Lynne Truss

Profile, 2007 - Fiction - 187 pages

MODERN FICTION. In the tradition of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, come Lynne Truss's twelve bittersweet tales about love, romance, friendship and family. Her six men and six women each have very different stories to tell, ranging from the wife who feels better when her husband disappears to the pedant who undergoes a TV makeover and the swimmer who can't escape the shadow of her sister . . . But all are funny, touching and as beautifully observed as would be expected from the best selling author. Whether describing fathers and daughters, married men, cat-lovers or 'other women', she is always brilliantly perceptive.

Contents

• The Wife: 16
• The Son: 43
• The Father: 61

About the author

Lynne Truss was born on May 31, 1955, in Kingston upon Thames, England. She is an English writer and journalist. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation was a best-seller in 2003. Truss received a first-class honors degree in English Language and Literature from University College London in 1977. After graduation, she worked for the Radio Times as a sub-editor before moving to the Times Higher Education Supplement as the deputy literary editor in 1978. From 1986 to 1990, she was the literary editor of The Listener and was an arts and books reviewer for The Independent on Sunday before joining The Times in 1991. She currently reviews books for The Sunday Times. She has also written numerous books including Tennyson's Gift; Going Loco; Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation; and Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Certain Age
• Author: Lynne Truss
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Profile, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 29, 2008
• ISBN: 1861978790, 9781861978790
• Length: 187 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Sagas