Whenever You’re Ready
An unexpected death finds Lizzie, Alice and Margot at various crossroads in their lives, caught between looking back and moving on.
Lizzie is reeling from a decades-old secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her friends, her family and her marriage. Alice has always been the good-time girl, as charismatic presenting the weather on television as she is working as a life model. But decades of piecemeal work have left her with a safety net that is rapidly unravelling. Meanwhile, Lizzie's perfectionist daughter Margot is realising that, despite having built herself a faultlessly curated life, she hasn't put her troubled past behind her as neatly as she thought she had.
Whenever You're Ready is a wise, wry, and wistful novel about grief, family, female friendship, ageing and ageism, that will appeal to fans of The Weekend by Charlotte Wood who have been looking for a similar ensemble drama with authentic, richly drawn characters.
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Whenever You’re Ready in the media
Arts Hub: Move over Millennials, it’s time for older women to shine
The Sunday Age: When I let my hair go grey, I didn’t expect to become invisible
The Conversation: I hope publishers will be brave, older women are often erased in fiction
The Guardian: You’re covered in wrinkles. You’re no longer interesting. The books making older women visible