Better Late Than Never

What does being old feel like? Mechthild Grossmann is 79 and enjoys it. In this book, she talks about the big and small moments of getting older. About the wonderful freedom as well as about the phenomenon that friends suddenly want to talk about nothing but their illnesses – and no longer about good books or films.

She talks about pistachio ice cream in Rome, about the new experience of eating a burger, what comforts her after the death of a friend, what sex and love are all about and how much she is enjoying having breakfast in bed in peace and spending an afternoon in sweatpants. Humorous and affectionate, she describes why age doesn’t have to be scary – but that it is actually the best time of one’s life.

»The short, trenchant texts have the makings of self-help.« Badische Neuste Nachrichten

»In the entertaining, often humorous articles with the inviting headlines she frequently emphasises the wonderful aspects of ageing, so that the books becomes an invitation to older people not to let the joy for life and for being old be taken away from them.« Medienprofile

»As short as the texts may be, they are just as powerful. They appear harmless but they continue to take an effect for a long time if you let them.« ü60gutezeiten.de

»A book full of short but trenchant texts to pick up here and there or to read in one go. Texts that linger in one’s mind for a long time if one has ever pondered ageing.« madamewien.at