Never too old

Martin Wainwright of The Guardian has a report of a 93-year-old debut novelist, Lorna Page. The book, A Dangerous Weakness, is described as 'a raunchy novel' and 'a feminist thriller set in the Alps' with a heroine who transforms 'the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes'.

The report says, Lorna Page 'wrote A Dangerous Weakness three years ago, but put it in a suitcase and made no attempt to find a publisher'. That was until her daughter-in-law told her that it was a fantastic book and that it was bound to sell.

With her new found prosperity, the author has moved into a big detached country house and has invited one or two of her contemporaries to move in. She says: "I started asking people if they wanted to move out of their care homes and live with me and I've had dozens of offers."

"Care homes can be such miserable places. You sit there all day staring out the window with no one to talk to ... I thought it would be lovely to give a home and family life to one or two people who would otherwise be sitting around there. It's nice for me too because at my age it's handy to have someone to live with ..."

The Guardian