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STILL TALKING

by lore segal

Introduced by Vivian Gornick

A BITTERSWEET LAST COURSE FOR LADIES’ LUNCH ...

Following her acclaimed Ladies’ Lunch novella, Lore Segal continued to create stories about a fictional group of nonagenarian friends as they faced the last years, months and moments of their lives. For Lore, the importance lay in ‘still talking’ – and still writing – to the very end. Fittingly, her last story was published in the New Yorker in the week that she died, aged ninety-six.

This posthumous novella of interconnected stories and vignettes is enriched by Lore Segal’s inspiring wit and wisdom, her compassionate gaze, and her unquenchable curiosity about life. It’s a book that entreats us to keep talking, regardless of differences and the trials of ageing – a book that we’ll still be talking about many years from now.

‘Curiosity was at the heart of Lore’s talent; it is what made almost everyone who read her feel more alive in her presence, on the page or in person; more than alive: clarified.’ FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY VIVIAN GORNICK

on ladies’ lunch

‘The writing is spare and short, telling us only what is needed, like snatches of conversation heard over the clinking of glasses. These ladies are perfect company’ The Times

‘There is humour even in the most heart-breaking of her stories’ Daily Telegraph

‘Deft, delicious stories that follow the lives of a group of long-standing friends ... and perfectly pitched memoirist musings’ 
Daily Mail

‘Friends die, we grow old, but stories survive ... we are lucky to have this piercing collection’ TLS

See a beautiful filmed interview of Lore Segal at age 90 years in conversation with Neil Munshi of the Financial Times, June 2018. Plus a special featured Long Read interview.