The young women of the sixties have done marriage, kids and career. True to their blessed generation, Old Age is being re-fashioned into New Age. They are taking their pensions and their place in the sun. They know all the answers to the History questions on the Game shows, because they were there, but they are refusing the beige, the sensible bobs and the bowls. Their party stopped with marriage and children. Now it’s almost midnight and time for one last dance. With unflinching candour, these stories challenge the last taboo: the sexuality of older women.

Heaven by Ann Butler Rowlands is a collection of linked short stories which cast a new light on the post-war baby boomers.

Ann Butler Rowlands is a psychoanalyst and poet. This is her first collection of stories, perfect for a read on the beach.

The chicks of the Sixties have done marriage, kids and career. They are taking their pensions and finding their place in the sun.

True to their blessed generation, Old Age is being refashioned into New Age.

Heaven by Ann Butler Rowlands is a collection of acerbic short stories which cast a new light on feminism and old age.

Heaven by Ann Butler Rowlands is a collection of linked short stories, set on a small Greek island, which cast a new light on the post-war generation. With unflinching candour they challenge the last taboo: the sexuality of older people.

Each story is headed by a quotation from  the great Greek poet, C.P.Cavafy, master of the erotic and the ironic. We are introduced to the ageing Europeans who have chosen to escape from work, families and the pressing  world into a community of ancient ways  and  subtle understanding hidden  behind  the well-marketed exterior of a holiday island.

Written with the detailed clarity of the embedded observer, funny, sensitive, brutally frank and compellingly honest, these stories move from light to dark as naturally as a Greek summer day.

Ann Butler Rowlands is a psychoanalyst and poet. This is her first collection of stories.