In this frank, often funny, and always compelling disquisition on aging, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation—from a 90-year-old weekly columnist and a vicar still working in his mid-70s toThe Good Granny Guide's Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and 'London’s Rudest Landlord' Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach and Horses. Kurtz is a fearless investigator of the art of growing old—its pleasures and its griefs—carrying with her the only tool that sharpens with age: lifelong curiosity.