Funny, quality commercial fiction about an older woman

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I can think of lots of good writers of funny women’s commercial fiction- Marian Keyes springs to mind- but their characters are often younger and lots of plots around finding a partner. (I know MK writes about more things than this.)

Im trying to find the equivalent but about an older woman and maybe not a romance plot. Any suggestions?

It's been a good 20 years since I last read her, but I think Mavis Cheek?

Saving Missy by Beth Morrey and The Lido by Libby Page..

Most of Joanna Trollope books are about married/ more senior women

Away with the penguins - Hazel Prior

Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney would definitely fit the bill.

Also quite a few things by Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger and Spiderweb come to mind), and Margaret Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises, though maybe not if you are just looking for humour.

Hilary Boyd - all her books have older characters

Deborah Moggach; Judy Leigh

Mrs Bendkn Beetles

Away with the penguins

The Lido

The Marlow Murder Club series.

Definitely Olive Kitteridge and Mary Barton series both by Elizabeth Strout.

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day
Very of its time, but a lovely book

Mrs Tim books by D E Stevenson.

Did anyone suggest The Diary of a Provincial Lady books?

The Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster is a great book.

Thank you @PracticallyPerfectedIt - I have just ordered that Margaret Forster book on your recommemdation and look forward to escaping the family with it over Easter!

Recently read this, it's great!

The Agatha Raisin books - light-hearted whodunits

The Three Graces by Amanda Craig

'In the Tuscan hilltop village of Santorno, the setting for Amanda Craig's entertaining and bracing new novel, the Three Graces of her title are preparing for a spring wedding. Adorning this idyll Craig's Graces - Ruth, Marta and Diana - are a trio of elderly expatriates with a total of "four breasts, five eyes and three hip replacements" between them... witty, sharp-eyed and ridiculously enjoyable' Christobel Kent, Guardian

When Enzo, a local villager, shoots an illegal immigrant from his bedroom window one night it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign.