A bittersweet last course for Segal's Ladies' Lunch

Following her acclaimed Ladies' Lunch novella (2023), Lore Segal continued to create stories about a fictional group of nonagenarian friends as they faced the last years, months and moments of their lives. For Lore Segal, the importance lay in 'still talking', and still writing to the very end. Fittingly, her last story was published in the New Yorker in the week that she died, aged ninety-six.This posthumous novella of interconnected stories and vignettes is enriched by Segal's inspiring wit and wisdom, her compassionate gaze, and her unquenchable curiosity about life. It's a book that entreats us to keep talking, regardless of differences and the trials of ageing - a book that we'll still be talking about many years hence.

Details

ISBN13: 9781914502354
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 112
Edition: Main
Publication Date: 21 Apr 2026
Publisher: Sort of Books
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.6(H)x13(L)x1.2(W)122
Weight (gm): 122

Author Biography

Lore Segal (1928-2024) was born in Vienna and sent to London at age ten on the Kindertransport. She settled in New York in 1951 and began writing for the New Yorker, becoming their longest-running contributor. Her five novels and story collections have won numerous awards.

Reviews

For six decades Segal has produced some of the best fiction and essays in American Literature * The New York Times *
A marvellous and singular writer * Observer *
Lore Segal is a national treasure, brilliant, unsentimental, and wry * LitHub *
Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation * Kirkus Review *