The Second Half of Your Life

Every now and again, a women’s book comes along that promises to change our thinking forever. In the Sixties it was Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl; in the early Seventies,Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch hit the spot, and later on, Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room got us all talking about why we put up with bad treatment from men. Now it is the turn of Jill Shaw Ruddock to shake us all up and ask new questions about our lives.

Her book, The Second Half of Your Life.is about the menopause and after. At this point, you may yawn and say: oh no, not again. Haven’t there been a million books about the menopause and growing old gracefully (or disgracefully)? Why should I clutter up my shelves with yet one more? Well, you should certainly read this one. Because in common with all the best life-changing books, the author’s startling message transmits itself from the page with a kind of electricity. Read the article (PDF, 140kb)

Source: The Second Half of Your Life. The Lady (Feb 2011 Issue)