TY - SOUND AU - Taylor,Alice AU - Fitzgerald,Jennifer ED - O’Brien Press. TI - Tea for one SN - 9781867597728 U1 - 306.8153 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Tullamarine, Victoria PB - Bolinda Audio KW - Taylor, Alice, KW - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- KW - Social aspects KW - Living alone KW - Single women KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographies N1 - Read by Jennifer Fitzgerald N2 - Many of us spend the later years of life living solo when children have grown up and moved on. Others choose this lifestyle. We get used to being on our own while also enjoying family and communal occasions. But 2020 brought new challenges to this solo lifestyle. We rose to the first challenge thinking that it would all be over in a matter of weeks. But no. Instead came a series of on-again off-again lockdowns of different levels. This was a new, radical, solitary living experience which was really going to test our endurance and resilience. Would the coping skills we had already acquired see us through? But this was more a hermitage existence than we had ever experienced, and it would really test our mettle. Then, gradually, a realisation dawned that maybe there were things to be learnt from this unique situation? Might we discover a new understanding and appreciation of things previously ignored? Alice Taylor began to wonder how best to handle this new, solitary experience, and to document her progress though this most extraordinary year. This is her journey ER -