THIS AGE WE'RE LIVING IN is a novel that faces up to the big questions: Can men make friendships across the generations? Can sadness be cured by Schopenhauer or shopping? Are the lives of lifestyle writers any less of a mess than anyone else's? And is everything really just rubbish? THIS AGE WE'RE LIVING IN is a funny, affecting and life-affirming novel about a grumpy old man coming to realise that, for all the inanity and insanity of the 21st century, life really is worth living after all...