In celebration of a scene-stealing leading lady aged between 60 and infinity.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.MY award for Book of the Year goes to Richard Osman’s latest novel,. It takes the prize largely because of Rosie D’Antonio, a character with so much chutzpah that she steals every scene in which she appears.When we meet Rosie, on page eight, she is sitting on an inflatable chair shaped like a throne in a swimming pool shaped like a swan. The pool is on her private island off the coast of South Carolina.
What makes all this especially appealing, at least to me, is that Rosie is well past the first flush of youth. She’s old, in fact. A running joke in the bookold. They figure she could be anywhere between 60 and 80, but as she’s been famous since the 1980s, she’s probably at the upper end of the scale. Rosie is cagey about her age but disarmingly candid about all else. “You can ask me anything,” she tells her recently hired female bodyguard, shortly after offering to roll her a joint.
Osman, who is 54, has admitted in interviews that he is by inclination a Steve. Give him the cat and the TV any time. I completely understand this. I’ve never shared a hotel hot tub with a Danish pop star, alive or dead, and I think it’s too late to aspire to that now. Like Steve, I love being at home. My idea of bliss is a few hours’ pottering in the garden while listening to podcasts .
A couple of weeks after turning the book’s last page, I bought myself a pair of leopard-skin shoes. Loafers, not Louboutins. But still.
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