No matter what age we are, we are getting older. Old age is a key stage of life, but this is the first anthology of creative writing on the topic compiling the work of contemporary women writers in Ireland. In these insightful essays, stories and poems, well-known and new writers reflect on their experience of ageing. Humorous, wise, critical and celebratory, this wide variety of views gives us important new perspectives on what it means to grow old.This anthology features a selection of poems, essays and stories from: Ivy Bannister, Sheila Barrett, Mary Rose Callaghan, Eileen Casey, Evelyn Conlon, Tricia Cronin, Kathryn Daily, Celia de Fréine, Moyra Donaldson, Katie Donovan, Mary Dorcey, Catherine Dunne, Anne Griffin, Kerry Hardie, Phyl Herbert, Rita Ann Higgins, Sophia Hillan, Ann Ingle, Heather Ingman, Arja Kajermo, Jessie Lendennie, Teresa Mason, Liz McManus, Maria McManus, Paula Meehan, Lia Mills, Caroline Moran, Mary Morrissy, Áine Moynihan, Meadhbh Ní Bhrádaigh, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Helena Nolan, Jean O’Brien, Mary O’Donnell, Rose O’Driscoll, Nessa O’Mahony, Mary Rafferty, Áine Ryan, Lorna Shaughnessy, Ailbhe Smyth, and Máiríde Woods.