A new Thursday Murder Club book is being published by former Pointless star and hit author Richard Osman, who hopes it will spread hope to readers.
According to Richard Osman, loneliness is a “epidemic,” but it never gets old to change your habits.
The TV host and author has created hugely successful characters in Thursday Murder Club books he writes, who are enjoying life in retirement village Cooper’s Chase.
The stories give hope of meeting new people, even in old age, as that is part of the storyline. Osman told Saga magazine : “Well, if there’s one message I want to get out there, it’s the idea of ‘change’.
It’s never too late to change, no matter how old you are. It doesn’t have to be one that solves grisly murders; it could be a change in your daily routine, a change in your way of life, or joining a club.
“I observed my mother go through ten or fifteen years of grief. Loss and loneliness’s pain and grief. I’m delighted that she is where she is because of this.
After raising him and his brother as single parents, his mother Brenda now lives in the retirement community in Sussex, which loosely inspires the books.
He continued, “Loneliness is an epidemic, and it can happen at any time,” adding that. It can be due to a divorce, a partner’s dementia, or the grief of death.
When my dad left us, I was only eight or nine years old, and I was far too young to comprehend what my mother was going through. largely unaware of the difficulty she had maintaining a job, taking care of her two sons, and finding a new way of living.
“We are social animals and yet we seem to have set up a world where it’s far too easy for loneliness to take hold. It’s this current generation that really worries me. Digital communications and social media have taken the place of real people and real conversations, and we’ve ended up with even more loneliness than ever before.”
Recently his first book has been turned into a Netflix film and he has the fifth ‘Murder club’ book being released this week, The Impossible Fortune.
However, he wants to keep the main characters Joyce Meadowcroft, Ibrahim Arif, Ron Ritchie, and Elizabeth West around for some time despite having more adventures as adults.
Osman, 54, said: “I love going to The Thursday Murder Club, but I have no desire to kill them.” As long as the readers are content to suspend their disbelief, I am just as interested in them.
Don’t get me wrong, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce, and Ron will continue to put themselves through regrettable circumstances. They will experience severe harm. But I’ll make sure to keep them going as long as possible. That’s a promise.
* The full interview with Richard is in October’s Saga Magazine out now.
Source: Mirror
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