Description From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of 'our funniest writers alive' (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.
At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children.
She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs.
Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting.
Among the widows of North London, he's whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors.
Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing - especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him ever since.
There's very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what's left.
Told with Jacobson's trademark wit and style, Live a Little is equal parts funny, irreverent and tender - a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.
Advance praise for Live a Little A tender story of unlikely love .
Jacobson treats with compassion the dilemma of old age.
Wise, witty, and deftly crafted.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Annotation From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J comes a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.
About the Author Howard Jacobson has written fifteen novels and seven works of non-fiction.
He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time.
In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for his novel, J.
Most recently, he published Shylock Is My Name for the Hogarth Shakespeare series.
He lives in London.
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