Welcome to Litsy!

What a wonderful package from across the pond! 🎉 It was such a sweet surprise, Helen…I‘m glad I waited. 😉😉 This sounds like a perfect book for me and the chocolate…well, chocolate is ALWAYS perfect. 😄
Thanks so much for thinking of me, my #birthdayfairy friend. 🤗😘 P.S. That wrapping paper is gorgeous!

You really wouldn‘t expect this book to be so warm, funny and life-affirming, as the titular Eudora is planning to end her life at a Swiss clinic, but it certainly is.

I loved the supporting cast of characters; I often find a child‘S POV in a book to be grating, but I loved Rose in this. (And Stanley too!)

Like others, I loved the Pointless and Richard Osman references. I watch Pointless most days!

It‘s brave to begin a feel good story with an octogenarian contemplating the end of their life, but this book brings it off triumphantly. Sad in places, heartwarming in others, some laugh out loud moments (comparing a baby‘s birth to a the ball popping out of a rugby scrum 😳🤣) & some Richard Osman appreciation. Eudora, Rose & Stanley have been excellent company and I‘m sorry to be leaving them behind. Thanks for the rec Cindy - I loved it.

This is a book I needed to read, so thank you @Cinfhen for the recommendation 💕
Some of the plot is predictable and it almost felt too sweet in parts, but Lyons brings it back from the edge with her realistic portrayal of the vulnerabilities of ageing and her willingness to look at death and how society avoids addressing it. Eudora is fantastic; blunt, steadfast and with a heart of gold. It made me think and I certainly won‘t forget Eudora!

This was a #blameitonlitsy I think @Cinfhen ? Anyway it is just lovely and very much what the doctor would have ordered for a couple of stress work weeks. Conical, honest and life affirming I loved Eudora and that is has a cross generational friendship with the fabulous Rose was icing on the cake

Look what I‘m listening to @Cinfhen ! I wasn‘t sure at first (I‘m very easily put off when narrators do different voices) but I‘m hooked now at 20%. At the moment im loving reading books about elderly people and finding purpose in your later years - I wonder why!

Image is a new sculpture that has popped up beside a small marina I like to walk around.

Train reading, on way to see Numan in London 😁

This donut is a thing of beauty.