THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER 2021’A Times, Guardian and Daily Mail paperback pickA Times, Observer, Independent, Daily Express and Good Housekeeping book of the year’The Weekend is so great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice’Marian Keyes’A rare pleasure… I was shocked by how unusual it felt to spend 275 pages exclusively in the company of older women’Sunday Times’Riveting’ Elizabeth Day’Glorious… Charlotte Wood joins the ranks of writers such as Nora Ephron, Penelope Lively and Elizabeth Strout’Guardian ‘A perfect, funny, insightful, novel about women, friendship, and ageing’Nina Stibbe’Wood ably conveys that older women didn’t used to be old, and that the experience of ageing is universally bewildering’Lionel Shriver (Observer, Books of the year) ‘Triumphantly brings to life the honest, inner lives of women’ Independent’A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book’Tessa Hadley ‘Charlotte Wood’s powerful novel depicts ol