About the Book: Love in Old Age : My Year in the Wight House
Queen Victoria so liked the Isle of Wight she built a royal residence here.
Thousands of people got stoned here at music festivals in the late 1960s. And,
in the very un-hippyish Covid summer of 2020, Hunter Davies and his girlfriend
escaped locked-down North London for a weeks holiday on the Isle of Wight, fell
in love with its sleepy charm and ended up buying a Grade II-listed love nest in
the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde.
Love in Old Age tells the story of their first twelve months on the