Christmas gift guide: books

The Virginia Monologues

Not to be confused with the Vagina Monologues, this book is subtitled '20 reasons why growing old is great' and written by journalist and agony aunt Virgina Ironside. Now 65, she takes a hilarious look at the issues of ageing. As the publishers say: Growing ancient is not a loss but a gain. You're more confident, and if your memory's going, at least you forget the bad times, like all those ghastly men you slept with in the other sixties...'

£12.99 from www.amazon.co.uk

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