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It's time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren't falling apart, but they're watching each other – Pete with his tachcychardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee. Selling their beloved house should be a…

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1 author picked Delirious as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book won New Zealand's Ockham Award for best fiction of 2025. It is a sensitive portrait of a couple in their 70s as they prepare to downsize and move into a retirement home, all the time struggling with the death of their 11 year old son which happened decades earlier. Dementia, infirmity and regrets await us all, and the book studies these and other subjects in sympathetic detail

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