Thursdays in the Park

If you get nothing else from this book. Think about this quote from the main character's Aunt Norma:
“Sixty is heaven,” she had told Jeanie as they sat having tea.”The world is done with you, you become to all intents and purposes invisible, particularly if you are a woman. There's childhood, then adult conformity—work, family, responsibility—then just when everyone assumes it's all over and you're on the scrap heap of old age, freedom! You can finally be who you are, not what society wants you to be, not who you think you ought to be.”