I’ll admit that I wasn’t coming to this book cold – I have already read and enjoyed some of Aitken’s previous books and had high hopes for more of his gentle humour and observations on life. In particular, I loved ‘The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders’ in which he embarked on several coach tours with the older generation – so I hoped ‘The Marmalade Diaries’ would hit similar witty, bittersweet intergenerational material.

Could this vegan collagen supplement be the secret to your best skin ever? These real women are loving the results - so could it work for you? Geri Horner wears vintage goggles and poses next to a yellow plane as she transforms into aviation icon Amelia Earhart for Halloween PICTURED: Maya Jama and Stormzy seen having heated argument in an alleyway during trip to LA after rekindling romance - as she breaks her silence Matthew Perry is seen dining out with a female friend at the Hotel Bel-Air the day BEFORE he was found dead in his hot tub at homeIn the blurb it states that the room is a great price because there’s a catch. That catch is Winnie but I beg to differ….. Icon Books is an independent publisher of thought-provoking non-fiction. We publish science, history, politics, philosophy, psychology, humour and much else besides Recently widowed, Winnie, 84, was in need of some companionship. Someone to help with the weekly food shop and offer tips on the crossword. Ben, 34, was looking for a new housemate. The Crown will portray Princess Diana as pregnant and will showMohamed Al-Fayed claiming she and Dodi were killed as part of an 'establishment plot', source claims Robert De Niro loses his cool in court after being asked if he urinated while on the phone to his ex-assistant and called her a bi**h

When hunting for a room in London, Ben Aitken came across one for a great price in a lovely part of town. There had to be a catch. And there was. The catch was Winnie: an 85-year-old widow who doesn't suffer fools. I loved this, it was such a feel good read despite being set around the Covid situation we all found ourselves in! He originally wanted to move to London to be in the same city as his girlfriend, Megan, and to think about his next book. Kim and Khloe Kardashian dress up in plaid mini skirts as Bratz dolls for Halloween... after Kylie Jenner collaborated with the toy brand

Share this article

The View host Sara Haines reveals the touching note Matthew Perry wrote to her brother to support him through his own alcoholism struggles Jason Momoa is 'beyond happy' that his stepdaughter Zoe Kravitz is engaged to his 'best friend' Channing Tatum

Aitken was up for the “unconventional” arrangement; he had previously worked as a carer, and has written a book about travelling with older people ( The Gran Tour ) which had convinced him an over 80 year-old was “just as likely to be as enjoyable, pleasant or demonic as someone in their twenties”. Inside Charles and Camilla's state dinner: King and Queen enjoyed lobster ravoli andsalmon as part of eight-course feast in NairobiDavid Schwimmer is spotted walking somberly to his NYC apartment after paying tribute to Friends co-star Matthew Perry

Milo Ventimiglia, 46, and his Victoria's Secret model wife Jarah Mariano, 38, seen for the first time since marriage revealed as they go for stroll in LA Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch get into the spooky spirit by dressing up as a sexy leopard and a sad clown for Halloween themed podcast As he’s topping up the bird bath one day, she yells: ‘Not the filtered water! They’re not discerning, you know.’ But there are other things that Aitken wants to change after observing, in both Winnie and himself, an inability to articulate feelings “especially towards, and regarding your family, and friends”. Full of warmth, wit and candour, The Marmalade Diaries tells the story of an unlikely friendship during an unlikely time. Imagine an intergenerational version of Big Brother, but with only two contestants. One of the pair a grieving and inflexible former aristocrat in her mid-eighties. The other a working-class millennial snowflake. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?Viewers say graphic violence on post-watershed TV is now the 'norm'... but portrayal of sex has become fairer to women Die Ausgangsidee des Romans hat natürlich Potential: zwei Menschen unterschiedlicher Generationen leben zusammen, lernen voneinander usw. Das hat in der Literatur schon oft großartig funktioniert. Ein relativ neues Beispiel ist "Offene See" von Benjamin Myers. Warm, tender and deeply moving I instantly fell under the spell of Ben’s writing. The people who appear through Winnie’s tales are recognisable and her and others opinions of them were certainly comical. Winston Churchill a pale lump and Princess Anne coarse should give you a rough idea. It was his publisher, North London independent Icon, who suggested the book, after his editor read an excerpt of the diary Aitken habitually keeps.