Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sex in Our ’70s: A Couple’s Tale of Discovery in the Evening of Their Lives follows Ben and Cat, two people who find one another later in life and discover that growing older does not mean giving up intimacy, excitement, curiosity, or the desire to feel truly wanted. Ben is a retired neuroscience professor in his seventies who has spent much of his life caring for others and approaching the world with a scientist’s curiosity. Cat has spent decades navigating complicated marriages, family expectations, self-doubt, and relationships that often left her feeling unseen. When their friendship develops into something deeper, both are forced to reconsider what they thought the later years of life were supposed to look like.After loss and major changes in their lives, Ben and Cat begin living together and discover a relationship filled with affection, companionship, humor, vulnerability, and an increasingly adventurous approach to intimacy. For Cat, the relationship becomes an opportunity to rediscover herself as a woman rather than simply as a wife, mother, or caregiver. For Ben, giving Cat the freedom to explore her desires becomes an unexpected source of emotional connection and fulfillment. From an unconventional cruise to intimate fantasies and surprising encounters, their experiences push them beyond familiar boundaries and force them to confront questions about trust, jealousy, aging, pleasure, guilt, commitment, and personal freedom. Their adventures are provocative, but beneath them lies a deeper story about two older adults learning how much of life may still be waiting for them.Told through the alternating perspectives of Ben and Cat, the novel explores not only physical intimacy but the complicated emotional history each person brings into a new relationship. Cat continues to wrestle with guilt, family estrangement, and the consequences of choices made earlier in life, while Ben reflects on caregiving, loss, love, and what it means to support a partner’s happiness. Ultimately, Sex in Our ’70s challenges the assumption that passion and personal discovery belong only to the young. As Cat realizes, discovering a new side of herself in her seventies opens possibilities far beyond the bedroom. For both of them, the evening of life becomes not an ending, but another opportunity to explore, connect, and discover who they are together. A candid, humorous, provocative, and relationship-driven novel about later-life romance, sexual discovery, aging, companionship, and refusing to let age determine when adventure must end.
