A handful of new Australian novels feature women getting older in a culture that would prefer it happened out of sightGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn 1972 the feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, then 62, published her book The Coming of Age to “break the conspiracy of silence” surrounding ageing. In it she argued that old age is culturally defined, arriving at different moments in the human life cycle depending on the time and place. “Society,” she wrote, “looks upon old age... Read this story
