About The Sensual Retiree by Gordon Smith
Joan’s adventures and encounters from her mid-sixties up to her early nineties, and we learn some woman’s sexual interests don’t always diminish with age
Joan had expected her retirement to be straightforward. She had always associated the word, to “retire” something, as putting it out of harm’s way, out of reach from the rest of the world for the rest of its time on earth. She rather relished in ideas of this isolation, associating it with the effortless simplicity of relaxation. So, undoubtedly, it came as quite a surprise when things did not go to plan
After her husband, Phil retired, Joan and Phil embarked on an epic round Australia caravan holiday. Joan discovers a new sexuality and is enjoying her new life when suddenly Phil has a heart attack and dies
She sells the family home and buys into a retirement village by the sea. She forms friendships with three other senior women and soon discovers that their zest for life and actions are not what one usually associates with older people.
With the premature death of her husband, Phil, so early-on into her retirement Joan packed up the family home and moved everything she owned into a little retirement house just off the coast, intending on living the rest of her days on earth like a ghost, well and truly forgotten by everyone else. Well and truly “retired”.
She had expected to give up, living day by day eating cups of liquid pudding and reading old books. What she had not expected was to meet a string of distinguishing people in that very place that would make giving up a little more complicated than she had planned.
While on a cruise with her lifelong friend, Melody, she strikes up a friendship with one of the male passengers, but he wanted a physical relationship whereas Joan not interested in anything other than company. To her surprise, she shortly after falls in love with gay Hollywood producer.
Back at the retirement village, she does eventual form an intimate relationship, but, it doesn’t last long.
From a retired nun, and a series of prudent friends that would later become wistful lovers. These compelling encounters help Joan to reclaim an appetite for passions she had not allowed herself to think about in decades.
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After retirement, I took an interest in researching my family.
This research and discovery gave me knowledge and ideas which brought about the writing of my first book “A family that went to war”. After publishing my first book, other books sprang up easily. His second book was “An Australian story” – the saga of an Australian family over two centuries. In this book, I wrote about Australia early settlement and the events that made Australia and the makings of a family. Amazingly, this book sat on the Amazon best-selling list for the Kindle history of Australia and Oceania for about 10 days, giving me further inspiration as I wrote my third book within a calendar year. This third book “The Ministry Communications Unit” is pure fiction based on a fictitious movie company set up by the Government during World War 2. I based a lot of this story around the locations that surround Caloundra.
I next took on a fictional novel “Lady Ruth Bromfield” an inspirational biography about a Jewish girl, raised by an English, Church of England priest and her progress to becoming an inspirational leading industrialist.
I then wrote “Men with a Mission,” an eye-opening account of events in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during the 1969’s and 1970s.
I then wrote “The Sensual Retiree” a romance story about a woman whose husband dies shortly after he retires. She makes new friends and discovers that it is possible for a widow in her sixties and seventies to be able to enjoy the company of male suitors.
I then wrote “The Aboriginal Cameleer” a story about a small Australian town during the late 1930s. Although originally aimed at older children, this book has a wider appeal.
I now, am proud to Release “Karanja Run”