The 10 Best Books With Badass Older Heroines

Some say youth is wasted on the young—maybe adventure is, too. After all, life doesn’t stop at 50 or 60 or even 80. Looks inevitably fade, even with the best interventions money can buy, but more years on the clock and a few laugh lines shouldn’t relegate women to supporting roles in literature or in life.

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If you’re looking for the best books with seasoned female protagonists, you’re in the right place. These stories have it all: action, laughs, love and sex. Whether in mid-life or late-life, these stereotype-busting heroines are proof positive you don’t have to be under 30 to be the main character in your own life.

In Pooley’s latest novel, 70-year-old Daphne is using her ‘older woman invisibility’ to stay under the radar and hide from her past. When she decides to break out of her lonely existence and join a Senior Citizens’ Social Club, she embarks on the adventure of a lifetime by taking on the bureaucrats determined to close the space down. With gangs, heists and stakeouts, this is not your ordinary novel about senior citizens. Prepare to be thoroughly........

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