Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old

Informationen zum Autor Hendrik Groen Klappentext The hilarious international bestselling novel that has had pensioners ditching their sticks and zimmers to follow the age-defying! youth inducing antics inside The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen! 83 1/4 Years Old . . . Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh Woman and Home Funny and touching BBC Radio 4 Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told! or dying quietly. To that end! he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. Zusammenfassung Meet Hendrik Groen. An octogenarian in a care home who has no intention of doing what he's told. To that end, he creates the Old-But-Not-Dead Club and with his fellow members sets about living his final years with careless abandon. Such anarchism infuriates the care home director but pleases Eefje, the woman who makes Hendrik's heart palpitate.

Report

'A great deal of heart' Graeme Simsion 'Praised for its wit' BBC Radio 4 Front Row 'When I'm an old man, I want to be Hendrik Groen' John Boyne 'I laughed until I cried' David Suchet 'Thoughtful, anxious and gruff... Laced with humour' Mail on Sunday 'Amusing [and] wickedly accurate' Sunday Express -

Product details

• Authors: Hendrick Groen, Hendrik Groen, Groen Hendrik, Hester Velmans
• Assisted by: Hester Velmans (Translation), Velmans Hester (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9781405924009
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-2400-9
• No. of pages: 389
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: MICHAEL JOSEPH; 171 POCHE; 171 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Niederländische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, Generational sagas, Modern and contemporary fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)