The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age - Hardcover

Shilling, Jane

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9780701181000: The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701181001 ISBN 13: 9780701181000

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2011

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Presents one woman's attempt to understand what middle age is, what it means for her and whether, as a new generation of women turns 50, some kind of revolution is under way.

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Review:

`An intriguing self-portrait of a thoroughly interesting person.' --The Times, January 18, 2011

`Like Montaigne, the essayist on whom she modeled her early attempts at writing, she elevates naval gazing into something beyond self absorption' --Daily Telegraph,

`An intelligent discursion on what it means to be a no-longer-youthful female in a world obsessed with staying young ... Her thoughts are refreshing, provocative and a pleasure to read'
--Metro,

`I loved this book so much I gulped it down in just two sittings... Jane Shilling is a peerlessly elegant and evocative writer' --Mail on Sunday

`Shilling is brave and endearingly frank' --The Scotsman

`She writes beautifully. Her perceptions are acute, her imagery memorable' --The Sunday Herald

`Imagine Montaigne as a thoroughly modern unmarried mother and freelance journalist living in south London... Everywhere there is detail, and nuance, and care about others, and about words' --The Guardian

`Shilling is a gorgeous writer and there are chunks of this book that I would happily steal... If this woman wrote a novel I would buy it in a heartbeat... Shilling puts the ageing process under the microscope and, as we read, we squirm' --The Observer

`Shilling's style, dashingly cavalier and artfully artless, bubbles with wit and brio. Never was a lament less lugubrious' --The Independent

'This `memoir of middle age' shuns self-pity and bubbles with wit. The gap between soaring mind and sluggish body becomes a source of rueful comedy' --The Independent, I

Book Description:

A remarkable and poignant memoir about one woman's attempt to understand middle age

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