To celebrate publication of Kate Mosse's AN EXTRA PAIR OF HANDS, we're delighted to present her recommended reads on growing old gracefully, disgracefully and everything in between. From outstanding fiction to informative and eye-opening non-fiction, these books all come from Kate's own shelves.

An Extra Pair of Hands is a story of caring and the grief, guilt, joy and love that accompany it. In it, Kate describes her experiences of caring for her parents, and then her mother-in-law, who all lived with Kate in their later years. It is a story about the gentle heroism  of our carers, about small everyday acts  of tenderness, and finding joy in times of crisis. It's about juggling priorities, mind-numbing repetition, about guilt and powerlessness, about grief, and the solace of nature when we're exhausted or at a  loss. It is also about celebrating older people, about learning to live differently - and think differently about ageing. But most of all, it's a story about love. 

An Extra Pair of Hands is published on 3rd June 2021 by Profile Books and Wellcome Collection. 

Kate Mosse is the bestselling author of Labyrinth and City of Tears.