Hardback: 330 pages
Genre: Humorous Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Orion May2025
Source: Tywyn Library
First Sentence: The postman always rang twice on a Friday, to check that his ladies weren't dead.
Review Quote: 'A sublime mix of comedy, drama and adventure' Jill Mansell
My Opinion:
C.J.Wray also writes as Chris Manby and has written over 40 books. This is the first I have read by her and the tag lines on the front cover 'Old Enough To Know Better' and 'Young Enough Not To Care' were enough to capture my interest when I picked it up tp browse at the library recently.
The protagonist Jennifer Sullivan, known as Jinx is an 89 nine year old who has led a very eventful life. There are things she wants and needs to do while she is still fit enough to do so. These plans take her on quite the adventure!
Take this story as it is intended, fiction and you will find it is a very readable comedy. Recommended to almost everyone if they are looking for a laugh.
Précis Courtesy of Amazon:
There are three things Jennifer 'Jinx' Sullivan promised herself she would never do:
1. Eat fast food.
2. Go on a coach trip.
3. Die without exacting revenge on the people who ruined her life.
She's about to let herself down on the first two, but she can still keep her word on the third. On a coach trip to Florence.
89-year-old Jinx is going to face her painful wartime history, unearth long-buried skeletons (quite literally) and plan long overdue vengeance on the worst best friend a woman ever had. That's the best friend who trained her in etiquette, cocktail-mixing and silent killing.
It's going to be a tough journey - not least because she's sharing it with twenty senior citizens and a recalcitrant teen. But Jinx knows that some promises are worth keeping, no matter how hard it may be...
Author Profile
Courtesy of Amazon
CJ Wray is the pseudonym of Christine Manby, a Sunday Times bestselling author with more than forty books to her name. Raised in the west of England, she studied psychology before embarking on an entertaining and wide-ranging career that has seen her selling kitchens, editing erotica, interviewing an armed robber, and impersonating a princess.
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