The Midlife Manual
Author(s): John O'Connell
Are you: • Aged between 35 and 55? • Acutely conscious that life hasn’t panned out quite the way you imagined it? • A lot happier after a couple of glasses of wine? • Getting divorced? Or consoling divorced friends? • Having, or considering having, an affair? • Tired and emotional and generally depressed? If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to more than half of these questions, then congratulations, you are officially experiencing ‘midlife’. That is, middle age – the autumn years – the beginning of the end. The question is, are you surviving it? Getting the meagre most out of it? Probably not. Embracing everything from blogging and Boden to wine and worry lines, Rye bread, infidelity and Ikea, The Midlife Manual is your very own guide to getting through the middle years more gracefully. Its aim is to make you feel less alone during this testing time. It will make you laugh. It may at times even be genuinely helpful.
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'An absorbing read, highly recommended and already confirmed as the Radio 4 Book at Bedtime at the end of October' - Ones to Watch, THE BOOKSELLER
John O’Connell worked for years – far, far too long – at the London listings magazine Time Out, where he was Books Editor. Since being made redundant on the grounds that ‘no-one really reads books anymore’, he has been writing, mostly about books, for The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and The National. He is the author of ‘I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria’ (Short Books, 2005). He is 37 and lives in south London with his wife and two children.
General Fields
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- : Short Books Ltd
- : Short Books Ltd
- : 31 July 2010
- : 210mm X 148mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2010
- : books
Special Fields
- : John O'Connell
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 305.2440207
- : col. Illustrations