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他們互看不順眼、拒絕被貼上刻板印象標籤。
當鍾愛的聚會地點即將被拆 ！
這群不夠溫順的長者，決定放肆一回：我們的社區中心，不准拆！
且看他們霸氣掌控全局、懟人無底限、笑中暗藏淚點、脫序演出的溫馨暴笑日常。
故事開場便是一段戲劇化的攔查——社區中心的交通車被警員佩妮攔下，她正尋找一名特別的嫌疑人。車上每個人都爭相自首：他們就是警察要找的人，而真正的嫌疑人早已機敏地開溜。究竟是誰隱藏這麼大秘密？時間回溯到三個月前……
莉迪亞是曼德爾社區中心的銀髪俱樂部剛到任的管理者，原本以為是輕鬆勝任的職務，卻無意中被捲入了一個充滿古怪與惡作劇的世界。達芬妮深藏秘密，十五年來低調生活；亞特失意的演員，一雙「愛作亂」的手；露比小名「毛線班克西」的用編織復仇；齊吉十八歲的學霸，八個月大的女兒的少年單親爸爸⋯⋯他們互看不順眼、拒絕被貼上刻板印象標籤，開啟他們在社區中心直言不諱、互懟互嗆、脫序演出的日常。
社區中心天花板倒塌，加上退休老校長的死亡意外，引發社群網站的熱議。當地的市議會受到譴責：資金不足、怠於修繕、商業陰謀，事件持續發酵。當市議會決定要拆掉他們鍾愛的聚會地點時，這支老人與小孩的黃金組合，當然不會輕易認輸！
為了守住社區中心帶給他們的一點溫暖，他們要盡一切努力阻止。於是，在策略大師達芙妮精心策劃與推波助瀾下，戲劇公演、娛樂實境秀、莉迪亞復仇的遠大計畫、網路募款，一場喧鬧無比、幽默與情感交織的悲喜劇熱烈上演……
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＂An uproarious romp!＂ --People
＂Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.＂ --Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times-bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign--but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door--as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog--to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
