RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... a darkly funny geriatric love story ... Some writers just seem to get better the closer they get to the end – not because they’re worried about death, perhaps, but because they’ve finished worrying about it: dying is for the young to obsess about. Jacobson is nearing eighty, and Live a Little is one of those late-life novels full of such wisdom and insight that it makes you wonder why anyone ever bothers reading – or watching – the young at all ... Jacobson reminds us that dying is not the worst thing that can happen to us: never having lived is far worse – and living is more than merely staying young.
