Now You Are Wonderful: A Celebration of Age, Freedom and Wisdom

by Mary Kennedy

What if growing older wasn't about fading away, but finally stepping into your full power? Here, one of Ireland's most beloved voices invites us to rethink what it is to age - personally, socially and spiritually. With warmth, openness and insight, Mary shares her own experience of growing older, alongside the reflections of wise and remarkable elders who have lived, strived and thrived through life's seasons.
Mary doesn't shy away from the realities of ageing - loneliness, forgetfulness, slowing down - but she also celebrates the gifts of later greater freedom, self-understanding, and the quiet joy of prioritising your own needs. She shows how age can be a time of healing, of returning to the past not to dwell on it but to liberate ourselves in the present.
A beautiful celebration of the richness of age, and a reminder that the later chapters may be the most powerful of all.

208 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication January 5, 2027

About the author

Mary Kennedy is a national best-selling novelist and a licensed psychologist on the east coast. She has written 37 young adult novels and has a new adult mystery series with Penguin, The Talk Radio Mysteries.The first title, DEATH IS BAD KARMA was released in January 2010, and the second release, REEL MURDER, is available now. She has spoken at over 100 schools, libraries and writers' conferences all over the country. She received a grant and award for "artistic excellence in fiction" from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Please visit her online at http://www.marykennedy.net. And be sure to visit Killer Characters--it's a fun site where cozy mystery writers blog as their characters! www.killercharacters.com