My Life in Agony: Confessions of a Professional Agony Aunt - Hardcover

Irma Kurtz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846883113 ISBN 13: 9781846883118

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

As Cosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. In these memoirs, she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades, as well as her own hectic and often difficult life as a single mum from America living in London. Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern and confuse us the most - from mother-daughter relationships through to eating disorders, office politics and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.

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Review:

'The unshockable queen of advice' -- Cosmopolitan

'So wise that she is practically Confucius.' --India Knight, The Sunday Times

'Lots of people may benefit from reading the advice contained within this book.' --Helen Davies, The Sunday Times

'Kurtz is exactly the sort of Wise Woman that all of us emotional wrecks would love to have as a best friend.' Daily Mail

'A highly readable stew of opinions and happenings that one can read simply for pleasure and finally realise one has actually learned a lot.' --The Observer

About the Author:

Born in New Jersey, Irma Kurtz has been Cosmopolitan's agony aunt for the past forty years. After taking a degree in English Literature, Irma travelled around Europe before finally settling in London. There she joined the brand-new Cosmopolitan magazine and instituted its iconic agony-aunt column, which she then also wrote for the American edition. She has contributed widely to many national papers, with frequent radio and TV appearances. Irma has written two novels, three travel-focused books and three self-help books, including the critically acclaimed About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1846883113
• ISBN 13: 9781846883118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300