Muriel Freeborn was ninety years old when she began her book, Ellie Hopeson 91 in 2017. Inspired by the life of a friend, who had been a writer, and had recently died, her writing proved to be therapeutic and an unexpected pleasure. She is interested in making music with friends, and is a member of her local church. She lives in Wiltshire. She has written for the elderly and the very elderly, and also for the young, who will be elderly one day.
For widow, Isabel Brakeford, life was to change dramatically when she and her teenage daughter,Tessa, visited the seaside home of her sister, Millie and her husband, Hubert. It was there that by chance she bumped into Steven who, it transpired, was a former climbing pal of her late husband Henry.
Freda is in her later years and struggling with the conflict between her inner desire to continue her busy life, exercising her experience and skills, and giving in to a feeling that a woman of her age should retire gracefully.
