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Growing old and Loving All Of It!
Join journalist & commentator Gordon McLauchlan in entertaining conversation reflecting on the delights, and only occasional frustrations, of growing old.
Gordon’s new heart-warming and absorbing book of contributions from 32 eminent New Zealanders including Sir Wilson Whineray, Brian Edwards, Elizabeth McRae, Dame Kate Harcourt, Hamish Keith and Sir Bruce Slane reveals it’s no zimmerframes or retirement homes for this lot.
Friday 23 July, 12 midday
Venue: The Marina Restaurant, Marina Park, Vogel St, Gisborne
Tickets available from Muirs Bookshop, $30 each
Books available to purchase at the lunch which Gordon will happily sign.
To see the poster, click here.
About the Book
The late baby boomers are starting to reflect on ways to grow old well, and these 32 affecting pieces by prominent New Zealanders over the age of 65 serve as extremely strong pieces of autobiography, as inspiration and as meditation. No zimmerframes and retirement homes for this lot.
The contributors, who include Elizabeth McRae, Wilson Whineray, Ranginui Walker, Brian Edwards, Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Smither, Barry Brickell, Michael Corballis and Sir Bruce Slane, continue to make a vital contribution to our nation. Editor Gordon McLauchlan encouraged them to be frank and self revealing. Their essays read like letters for their eventual descendants: on how they saw the world and themselves when young, on the issues around growing old, on how they see the future, and on the wisdom they've picked up along the way. It's a compelling, essential collection.
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