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Queen Victoria so liked the Isle of Wight she built a royal residence here. Thousands of people got stoned here at music festivals in the late 1960s. And, in the very un-hippyish Covid summer of 2020, Hunter Davies and his girlfriend escaped locked-down North London for a week’s holiday on the Isle of Wight, fell in love with its sleepy charm – and ended up buying a Grade II-listed love nest in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde. Love in Old Age tells the story of their first twelve months on the island. It brings together the themes of love in old age; Covid lockdown; rural escape; the anxieties of house-buying; and the history and curiosities of England’s largest and second most populous island – all bound together by Hunter Davies’s inquisitiveness about people and places, and his irrepressible and ironic sense of humour.

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'Hunter's wit and charm and insatiable curiosity about people and places will have you captured' * Our Man On The Ground * PRAISE FOR HUNTER DAVIES: 'Affable, curious, unpretentious, never dull, Hunter is one of the most agreeable egomanics I know' Michael Palin. 'Brilliantly funny' Daily Mail. 'Easy-going, humorous and a natural journalist, Hunter Davies comes across as a thoroughly nice man' Sunday Times. 'Our own national treasure' Helena Kennedy. 'Davies is a wonderful companion, leading readers down memory lane with great chumminess' * Daily Express *

Hunter's wit and charm and insatiable curiosity about people and places will have you captured * Our Man On The Ground * PRAISE FOR HUNTER DAVIES: 'Affable, curious, unpretentious, never dull, Hunter is one of the most agreeable egomanics I know' Michael Palin. 'Brilliantly funny' Daily Mail. 'Easy-going, humorous and a natural journalist, Hunter Davies comes across as a thoroughly nice man' Sunday Times. 'Our own national treasure' Helena Kennedy. 'Davies is a wonderful companion, leading readers down memory lane with great chumminess' * Daily Express *

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Hunter Davies is a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for Punch, the New Statesman, Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of more than 100 books, including the only authorized biography of The Beatles and biographies of Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Alfred Wainwright. He spent every summer in the Lake District for nearly half a century and his Lakeland: A Personal Journey was published by Head of Zeus in 2016. He now divides his time between North London and the Isle of Wight.

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