{"product_id":"the-middlepause-on-life-after-youth-9781911344025","title":"The Middlepause: on life after youth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age mean today?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSpurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin’s clear-eyed account of our middle years takes inspiration from literature and philosophy to weigh the challenges and opportunities of mid-life. It offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Lucid and sophisticated … A restrained but wonderful guide to the convulsive changes of 50 and over … This is a book that yields valuable insights on almost every page.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Melissa Benn * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A 21st-century meditation on middle age … \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e is erudite, with a lengthy list of notes and ideas for further reading, but it is also personal — part memoir, part unflinching travelogue through the unsettling physical and mental challenges of the menopause … Honest and uplifting.’\u003c\/p\u003e * FT *\u003cbr\u003e‘Beautifully composed and intensely sympathetic, \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause: On Turning Fifty\u003c\/i\u003e is wry, personal and intimate, while still being something of a road map for others.’ -- Viv Groskop * The Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Women do a lot of things to mark turning fifty. Go to a resort! Have a bang-up party! Far, far better: read \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause.\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003c\/p\u003e * Jill Lepore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History of Wonder Woman\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Emotionally honest.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘We are not supposed to beguile, we the middle-aged women. But with \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e, Marina Benjamin does that: she beguiles and entrances with a lyrical, thoughtful, erudite, and always lucid exploration of the middle years of her life, and what they mean to her, and what middle-aged women mean to society.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rose George, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Beautifully written and so thoughtful, \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e made me think about fleeting time and what is important to me. I couldn’t put it down.’ \u003c\/p\u003e -- Amy Jenkins, author of \u003ci\u003eHoneymoon\u003c\/i\u003e and creator of \u003ci\u003eThis Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Renunciation, shape-shifting, ennui, sorrow: this tender and thoughtful book calls for an ‘invisible revolution’ in our attitudes to women’s ageing. In a deeply personal meditation Benjamin places body knowledge and luck alongside grieving and family history; intimate reflection with literary exemplar; communion with ghosts sadly close to the painful real. \u003ci\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/i\u003e is a wise, lucid and beautiful plea for more candid discussion of the time-wrought transformations of the female body.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gail Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eA Guide to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Intimate, open-hearted, clever and kind, this book is a companion which, by naming the shadow fears, finds the truer gold.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jay Griffiths, author of \u003ci\u003eKith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A candid and beautifully written “wrinkles and all” meditation on the middle years with all their dilemmas and challenges … [Marina Benjamin] seeks a new vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously without sentiment or delusion.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A candid look at what it means to be 50 today … Warm, wise and beautifully written.’\u003c\/p\u003e * Good Housekeeping *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is a measured and beautifully written critique of menopause and middle age that pre-, mid-, and postmenopausal women will find eminently relatable, and that those who love and care for them will likewise appreciate.’\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Benjamin takes us into her inner world — it’s instructive, and very moving.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- William Leith * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Full of insight.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eleanor Mills * Sunday Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In \u003cem\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/em\u003e Benjamin deftly and brilliantly examines the losses and unexpected gains she experienced in menopause. Menopause is a mind and body shift as monumental and universal as puberty, yet far less often discussed, especially in public, which is what makes Benjamin’s work here so urgently necessary.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kate Tuttle * The Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Benjamin takes the process of self–help thoughtfully. For starters, to recognise change, rather than deny it, is to begin to deal with it.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Iain Finlayson * Saga Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This gentle but honest book should be standard reading for friends and loved–ones of women trying to make sense of this transitional stage in life.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sue Wright * The Malcontent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThe Middlepause\u003c\/em\u003e isn't some deluding self–help book that insists middle–age is a time of great growth for us all. It’s an accurate and thoughtful assessment of the credit and debit sheet, and it remains emotionally genuine throughout … This is a thoughtful, compassionate and wise book.’\u003c\/p\u003e * Shiny New Books *","brand":"Scribe Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414451855703,"sku":"9781911344025","price":8.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781911344025.jpg?v=1730523646","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-middlepause-on-life-after-youth-9781911344025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}