Retirement living as it really is

April 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Through the eyes of others Linda Garrett looks at why many middle-aged Australians choose to live in lifestyle villages.

Their backgrounds are different but all have expectations of the kind of life they hope to lead in a village situation.

It is a revealing look at a current specific lifestyle increasingly sought in today’s Australia.

Linda has compiled stories from a diversity of people choosing the lifestyle option of over 50’s living. There are varied reasons; less maintenance, less cleaning, more travel, more friends, more activities; just to name a few. If you’ve ever considered downsizing this is a book you must read.

Linda was born in England but before her first birthday her parents moved to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). She spent the first seven years of her life in the close company of her parents, and roamed the Zambian bush of their tobacco farm bare footed with her minder Bebe, the Alsatian. She enjoyed the privilege of parental love, surrounded by nature and a sense of freedom that would affect her for life.

By the time she was fourteen the family migrated to Australia and her formal education was over. In order to help support the family in their new lives in Western Australia, she worked in a local café in Albany.

Later she and her partner, Wilks, went to live near her mother and her mining mate in the opal town of Coober Pedy in her mother’s last months.

Linda and Wilks now live on Tamborine Mountain, on the Gold Coast hinterland of Queensland.  Her first book with Zeus 'Mysteries, Miseries and Miracles' (2005) was the story on Linda’s life.

'Some do, Some don’t - So you think you want to live in an over 50’s village?' by Linda Garrett ISBN: 978-1-921731-59-4  RRP $19.95  Non-Fiction Lifestyle

If you would like to interview the author or require a review copy of the book please contact Donna on (07) 55 755 141 or marketing@zeus-publications.com

The book can be purchases at: http://www.zeus-publications.com/some_do_some_dont.htm

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