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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

'Sea, sunshine, romance and fabulous characters; Maddie's light touch and sense of fun will lift your spirits!' Bestselling author Judy Leigh

Sophia Gregory has lost her sparkle...

Recently single and about to turn sixty, Sophia doesn’t recognise the old woman staring back at her in the mirror. How has life passed her by? A quiet holiday in beautiful Rhodes is the perfect chance for her to find herself.

Until she meets the Old Ducks!

Juliette, Kim and Anita are three friends who are determined not to grow old gracefully! Bold and brash, they are Sophia’s worst nightmare, until they make her an honorary member of The Old Ducks’ Club! Now dancing and drinking till dawn Sophia starts to shake off her stuffy old life and start living again!

And when she meets her gorgeous Greek neighbour, Theo, she thinks that maybe, if she’s just a little braver, she can learn to love again too...

It’s never too late to teach an Old Duck new tricks!

A laugh out loud and uplifting story about the importance of friendship and always, always having fun!

Perfect for fans of Judy Leigh and Dee Macdonald

What readers are saying about The Old Ducks' Club...

'Sea, sunshine, romance and fabulous characters; Maddie's light touch and sense of fun will lift your spirits!' Bestselling author Judy Leigh

'A new lease of life under the Greek sun. As fresh and delicious as chilled retsina!' Sunday Times Bestselling author Phillipa Ashley.

'For a book that’s as cheering and restorative as a long lunch with your very best friend, Maddie Please is the author you need to know!' Bestselling author Chris Manby

'Genuine and life-affirming…a wonderful, lighthearted novel about how it is never too late to find happiness.’ Bestselling author Kitty Wilson

'A heart-warming story filled with friendship and fun. It's official - I want to be an Old Duck!' Bestselling author Maisie Thomas

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18 May 2021
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Maddie Please is the author of bestselling joyous tales of older women. She had a career as a dentist and now lives in Herefordshire where she enjoys box sets, red wine and Christmas. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08WX1FGJ7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Boldwood Books (18 May 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 725 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1801621160

Best Sellers Rank: 1,173 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Sisters Behaving Badly Is the latest book by Maddie Please and like the best selling Old Ducks Club is published by Boldwood Books. It is a story of how estranged sisters rekindle their friendship after many years apart. Love, humour and kindness and the unbreakable bond that sisters can share despite everything life throws in the way. Set in Brittany, we follow how the sisters cope with being together again.

These are uplifting, romantic comedies with a steep learning curve for her characters, reflecting the sometimes confusing experiences of today's women (and men) which can be challenging whatever your age.

Maddie likes the Bourne Trilogy, anything to do with Christmas, America, cruises and writing. In her spare time she likes watching American box-sets, thinking about holidays and drinking red wine.

Maddie is represented by DHH Literary agency with agent Broo Doherty.

The Summer of Second Chances Maddie's debut was published in July 2017 and was an Amazon best seller in the UK and Australia.

A Year of New Adventures followed in February 2018,

A transatlantic crossing on the wonderful Cunard ship QM2 led to Maddie’s third book Come Away With Me, published in August 2018.

Maddie's fourth book, The Mini-Break was published in May 2019

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Sharon

Ok... now I want to go to Greece!

Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2021

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A lovely novel about growing older, what we settle for in our lives and what needs to change for our own happiness, wrapped up in some funny characters (all with their personality greats and not so greats), laugh out loud moments and the visualising of the setting as described by the author. I want to join the Old Ducks Club - and all the fun and mishaps of a holiday in Greece!

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MajorDad

Another most enjoyable book.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2022

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A really great read. If you are 60, or there about, you can relate to this author. This is the second book by this author that I have read in the last couple of days, and it is as enjoyable as the previous one was. If you thought Shirley Valentine was great, this book beats it hands down. A lovely story of finding love in later life. Very intuitive writing, great story line and great characters. The Old Ducks' Club is a storey of for women who meet on a holiday to Rhodes. All in their 60's, or nearly there, the story delves into the background of each lady, including the owner of the cottages they are renting, Theo. It is the story of Sophia's and Theo's blossoming relationship and the support and high jinks that the four ladies get up to. It was a great story with an ending, that while it became obvious, did nothing to dispel from the story line. Excellent, thoroughly enjoyed it. Grey hair does not an old person make, these four ladies proved that.

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Valerie Lawrance

Old Ducks Club.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 January 2022

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I loved this book so much, I laughed a lot over some of the things the women got up to. As I am in the same general age bracket as them, I truly did envy them. I would love to pack up and go anywhere really. I loved Theo, any woman would, such a thoughtful and caring man. This book was just so much fun, I would recommend it to everyone, I really, really loved it. So funny.

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I loved this from the first to last page

Reviewed in Australia on 7 May 2022

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This book spoke right to my heart. I'm a bit older than Sophia but feel life is still full of wonderful opportunities to enjoy. This book speaks to my heart. I really enjoyed the way Maddie Please so effortlessly weaves her thoughts into the story. I felt it was real and was surprised that it was fiction. I will definitely read more of her books.

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Helen Taylor

Great fun,

Reviewed in Australia on 21 October 2021

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I am loving reading about "older women" as I am now one! This book is fun, as well as insightful! It reflects on our youthful insecurities, our choices & their consequences. Most of all, it re-enforces the saying: "It's not over until it's over!" A good, fun, read.

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Malynka

Loved it!

Reviewed in Australia on 20 August 2021

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I've not been to Rhodes but I do long to return to Greece and yes I am an old duck. This story was fun and just the sort of escape we need in this pandemic world.

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Mandy

Holiday reading

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2022

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When you don’t want to think and you don’t care that your predictions are bound to be accurate and you just waa way by to read C while the grandchildren are watching some ghastly thing on your tv, this is just fine.

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Strikes a chord

Reviewed in Australia on 8 April 2022

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Heart-warming. Any woman of a certain age will love this. It's fun reading the lines and sections that are underlined too. Most will strike a chord.

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E.J.

Fun, heartwarming, escapist read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2021

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Rhodes is now on my bucket list thanks to The Old Ducks Club. The food, sunshine, and sights are all perfectly portrayed in this wonderfully charming novel. Sophia is almost sixty and has grown weary of her life in Oxford. Suddenly single, she jets off to Rhodes where she meets three hilarious, gregarious women who invite her to join The Old Ducks Club. Inspired by their zest for life, Sophia realises that age is just a number especially when her gorgeous Greek neighbour Theo comes along. This book will have you tingling with warmth from the first page. Highly recommend.

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Valerie M Hedges

Gives us over sixties - hope - to write one of my own - thank you for the Fun laughter and resonance - Its not over yet !!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2021

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The best thing anyone can at any stage in life My family are settled happy .I'm widowed. Many husband and I had so much fun in our forty years together - so many different lives but he was older than me it was inevitable he would go first - sadly after a long protracted illness- I was sixty one we he passed had some Juliette moments and Sophie ones though he was a widower but just as disrespectful all the same . Now I'm looking forward to my best life again .Thank you for fun laughter and for writingt this book - Inspiring and brave wish I could do the same 😊

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Fengirl

At last!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2021

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A "laugh out loud " book that really DID make me laugh out loud. A real tonic for anyone of a certain age struggling with a grey summer after another ghastly Covid controlled year. Those girls are having FUN, and if they can do it - so can the rest of us, even if we can't get to Greece with its gorgeous sunshine, blue skies.............
Really recommend this book to lift your spirits

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Pauline Robson

There’s life in the old dog yet!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2021

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This was a gorgeous book. It’s so unusual to have the heroine in her 60’s. As a woman of 57 it gave me hope that perhaps I’ve still got an adventure or two left in me. I could really associate with Sophia, even down to the dodgy knee. Thank you so much for this lovely story Maddie Please. How I would love to be an Old Duck!!!

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So close to home

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2021

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I am a member of a similar club, we call ourselves The Boiling Fowl, when we started meeting up each week three of the ladies were in their early sixties, I was five years older, two of us had been friends for thirty years, we both met another through work, this lady met one of the other ladies through another group, then I met another lady through an online support group, somehow we have become just like the Old Ducks, we have had so much fun, lots of sadness too, illness , joy, this book explains so much better than I could just how wonderful it is to be part of such a group, this book struck a chord in my heart, I just tell my friends how important they are to me. I hope to read more from this author, I usually read thrillers and detective novels, this was a lovely change from them, I loved it.

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