It’s funny that I’ve spent my entire life writing novels about marriage but when it came to my own I was as clueless as anyone about why it ended. I was writing a novel and tending the garden; we slipped back into our old routines. My novel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel offered one solution — decamp to India with a crowd of other oldies and launch into another life in the sun. We were climbing mountains and dancing round our kitchens and falling in love — I’d got married again in my mid-60s. One of the best is to consider this a different period in your life — an interesting period — rather than a purely negative one.

Source: Daily Mail July 09, 2021 21:38 UTC