The Old Sex Symphony is as the title alludes - a celebration of the libido and its ups and downs as people past the age of sixty attempt to keep the home fires burning. Ostensibly a scientific study of sexual behavior in the elderly, the study’s researcher and his younger research partner divide their research according to symphonic movements, with brief intermissions of their conversations interspersed with much longer and detailed stories of unrelated people in unrelated incidents - stories of the mundane, the profane, and the profound - of older men and women in licit and illicit encounters.

Vincent Kaye is one of the most talented writers I’ve discovered in quite a while, managing to make the stories of the research subjects both hilarious, poignant, believable, and unbelievable - but, ultimately, when all is said and done, incredibly and believability human. I loved this book. It’s about life, when you get down to the core. And life is messy, beautiful, and should be filled with ice cream. As a matter of fact, reading this book is akin to slowly savoring one’s favorite flavor of ice cream created by the best ice cream maker in the world. I urge you to dip into this book.

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Great book! The title says it all. Full of British dry humor. I received a free copy from NetGalley and am so glad. I will be looking for more from this author.