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A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.
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 carers with tangled tales of her husbands and affairs.
Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. He forgets nothing –especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has long hung over him. There's very little left 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.

Ей девяносто с чем-то там лет. Она почти уже ничего и никого не помнит, даже своих сыновей. Но язвительности не утратила. Целыми днями она вышивает мрачные высказывания и изводит домашних помощниц запутанными историями своих любовных похождений. Он — последний перспективный холостяк Северного Лондона. Он застегивает пуговицы без посторонней помощи, ходит на своих двоих и не брызжет слюной, когда говорит. Но, в отличие от нее, он ничего не забыл, даже то, что хотел бы забыть. Этим двоим осталось не так много времени на земле… Но вдруг и его хватит, чтобы залечить сердечные раны и найти новый смысл жизни? Чтобы пожить немного? В своем новом…

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. *NOMINATED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2019* 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 af

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*
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 an

Ей девяносто с чем-то там лет. Она почти уже ничего и никого не помнит, даже своих сыновей. Но язвительности не утратила. Целыми днями она вышивает мрачные высказывания и изводит домашних помощниц запутанными историями своих любовных похождений. Он – последний перспективный холостяк Северного Лондона. Он застегивает пуговицы без посторонней помощи, ходит на своих двоих и не брызжет слюной, когда говорит. Но, в отличие от нее, он ничего не забыл, даже то, что хотел бы забыть. Этим двоим осталось не так много времени на земле… Но вдруг и его хватит, чтобы залечить сердечные раны и найти новый смысл жизни? Чтобы пожить немного?

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. 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 carers with tangled tales of her husbands and affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. He forgets nothing –especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has long hung over…

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 like an oppressive cloud 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 in equal parts funny, irreverent and tender – a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.