In this week’s issue: One woman’s guide to midlife renaissance. A gothic treat for Halloween. Inside the phone of a teenage girl. Caring for your bald head during cancer. Too old to get a job, too young to retire? A bookworm on breaking up with reading. Emma Thompson on thrillers. Breaking the thirty minute creativity pain barrier. An ode to magazines. Britain’s oldest witch. The agony of clearing your mother’s home. And more.
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• Prince Andrew is no more. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has finally been stripped of his last title – and his fancy schmancy tax-payer funded home. Let us all remember Virginia Guiffre.
• So so so so SO many pieces about Lily Allen’s brilliant new album, West End Girl, this week. These are two of my favourites: love and gaslight by
• Yesterday I wrote about ageism and sexism at work. Somebody sent me this piece about the French women who, at 50, are too old to get a job and too young to retire…
• on intuition, quiet knowing and dismissing your own spirituality.
• Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her mother’s home.