How to Get Over Being Young: A Rough Guide to Midlife - Softcover

Bauer, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838952004 ISBN 13: 9781838952006

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2022

Synopsis

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife - an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman's adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years.

Through her own experiences as a fifty-something woman, and those of her three sisters, her indomitable mum and rebellious auntie, Charlotte tackles the big questions every woman seeks answers to at this time of our lives - chiefly: How the hell am I going to get over being young in a world obsessed with youth?

Written with warmth, wisdom and irreverence this guide to midlife is perfect for readers of Nora Ephron, Caitlin Moran and India Knight.

About this title

About the Author

Charlotte Bauer is a prize-winning journalist and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. UK-born, she and her family moved to South Africa in the 1970s. She lives between Johannesburg and south-west France.

From the Back Cover

Turning ?fty is a milestone for any woman - but for Charlotte it triggered the realisation that 'Youth, after all, is a passing phase, and by the time most of us notice we have it, it has gone. Then there is the rest of our lives.' And so began a transformative journey through ten tumultuous years, steering through the choppy waters of health, identity and work; vanity, fashion and fury. Exploring the nature of her changing relationships with partners, children, parents, friends and - critically - with herself, she starts getting acquainted with the stranger in the mirror, with whom she is not yet on ? rst-name terms.

With no subject off -limits - from her riotous family to her yo-yo relationship with food and lifestyle, drugs and fun drugs - we see our own concerns and experiences re? ected. Travel with Charlotte, sharing in the ups and downs along the road towards sixty - laugh, cry and ultimately feel buoyed that maybe it is possible to get over being young in a world obsessed with youth. By any means necessary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838952004
• ISBN 13: 9781838952006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320