Coda is a 1994 novel by Australian author Thea Astley.

She calls on her children for help, but they have their own selfish lives to lead: Shamrock (Sham) is the wife of a crooked politician and overly self-obsessed, and Brian is miserably married.

[2] Neither of them want anything to do with her and pack her off to Passing Downs retirement village.

[3] But Kathleen refuses to be "rendered invisible" as a result of her age and fights to maintain her dignity.

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