Reality of being over-65 is love, jealousy and undignified sex, says author "I think that this stage, my stage in life of 65 onwards, is a really, really interesting time," she told an audience at Dartington Hall, Devon. The whole question of controlling our own death is one thing, but much more important in my case is how you live these last perhaps 20 or 30 years, because it's a big raft of time. "I think that the 'Best Exotic" has been a success and I hope this [her new book] will do the same thing, in that it shows you that what I call 'very grown up indeed" - ie a bit older - is actually not very grown up at all. The films and the books that speak to you don't have to be all about dementia and stuff; they could just be about the fact you make the same old mistakes as you did when you were younger. You fall in love, you're jealous, same joy, same everything - you're just a bit more wrinkly. It's just us, at whatever advanced stage we are. She added: "I think the things that speak to us at this age are great, because there's an awful lot of stuff that either ignores us, like films that are made for people of foetal age, or they just go on and on about impending death. The winds of mortality might be brushing our cheeks, but we're not there yet. There's plenty of life in the old dog. Moggach has previously disclosed details of a court case involving her late mother, who was imprisoned for attempted murder in 1985 for helping a terminally ill friend to kill herself. She is also a patron of charity Dignity in Dying. Her daughter Lottie has written the acclaimed Kiss Me First, which tells the story of a young woman creating an online presence to mask her plans to commit suicide. Deborah Moggach added: "Choosing the right to die when you want to, especially now when we're living so much longer, is very important."