Smile, you’re getting old!

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Smile, you’re getting old!

By (author): Évelyne Wilwerth

Translated by: Christine Tipper

Surely a woman who chooses a white rat as a pet and calls him Mr. Loverat is worthy of our attention. Ginny is slightly crazy – she takes her rat to a posh restaurant! And she jumps on the helter-skelter ride of life. In this fun and questioning journey from Ginny’s 45th to 62nd birthday, we eavesdrop on her musings and her conversations with friends and family as she weaves a path through the obsessions of a generation that does not want to accept that we all grow old. {Guernica Editions}

AUTHOR

Évelyne Wilwerth

Évelyne Wilwerth was born in a 19th century villa in Spa, Belgium. At thirty she left teaching for a writing career. She has written for the theatre, as well as novels, essays and children’s fiction. The original version of Smile, you’re getting old! (Souriez, vous vieillissez!) has been performed in both Europe and North America. She lives in Brussels.

AUTHOR

Christine Tipper

Christine Tipper holds a Ph.D. and a Masters in French literary translation from the University of Exeter, England, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and of the Conseil International d’Études Francophones. She works as a freelance interpreter, translator and a freelance teacher of translating and interpreting on Masters programmes at the University of Bath. She has translated several authors for Guernica including Changing Shores by Nadine Ltaif, Evelyne Wilwerth’s Smile, you’re getting old, Danielle Fournier’s We Come From The Same Light and Francis Catalano’s Where Spaces Glow.