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Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend
Pleasure and the midlife woman
Catch up with Mel Pennant at The Shift bookclub live
Introducing our July bookclub pick
Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend
It's never too late to prove them wrong
'I think my sisters took a lot on the chin for me'
What's got my attention this week #104
Who benefits when we have to do everything backwards in heels?
NEW EPISODE: Molly Jong Fast on parenting your parents and losing your mother
What's got my attention this week #103
When words fail, music prevails
NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
What's got my attention this week #102
Catch up with Jessica Stanley at The Shift bookclub live
Introducing our June bookclub pick
NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
What's got my attention this week #101
30 things women over 40 want you to know
NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
What's got my attention this week #100
NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
What's got my attention this week #99
I wrote about my gynae hell – and whoa did you respond!
"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
Catch up with Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub live
What's got my attention this week #98
What does true visibility look like?
NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
Meet Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub - LINK ENCLOSED
What's got my attention this week #97
Introducing our May bookclub pick
It took over two decades to get my painful periods diagnosed
What's got my attention this week #96
How I learned to love my crazy ginger hair
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
What's got my attention this week #95
It took me ten years to realise, I am my block
What's got my attention this week #94
Catch up with Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift Bookclub Live
"I thought it was a love affair, not a story"
Meet Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift bookclub - Link enclosed
Introducing our April bookclub pick
What's got my attention this week #93
"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
What's got my attention this week #92
Why do some marriages last, when others don't?
NEW EPISODE: Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men on the TV, Botox and grannyhood
What's got my attention this week #91
NEW EPISODE: Jenni Fagan on making it to 46 when no-one thought she'd see 16
What's got my attention this week #90
Is this the antidote to 'quick fix' culture?
NEW EPISODE: Ione Skye on fame, ageing, divorce and coming into her own at 50
Catch up with Jojo Moyes at The Shift Bookclub Live
What's got my attention this week #89
Two old(er) women drinking coffee
NEW EPISODE: Olympian Denise Lewis on reinvention and adapting to a big life shift
Introducing Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell
What's got my attention this week #88
What to read when absolutely nothing goes in
NEW EPISODE: Dr Liz O'Riordan – when breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient
What's got my attention this week #87
NEW EPISODE: Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose
What's got my attention this week #86
NEW EPISODE: Diana Evans on ageing, expectation & turning 50 without her twin
What's got my attention this week #85
Gen X women are having all the sex!
What's got my attention this week #84
On the madness and possibility of midlife
Remembering Marianne Faithfull*, but not as she actually was
What's got my attention this week #83
Catch up with our January The Shift Bookclub(s) LIVE
What's got my attention this week #82
Conversations with women (over 40): Lindsay Nicholson, 69
January Bookclub(s) Live - chat and links
What's got my attention this week #81
What's got my attention this week #80
What Demi Moore's Golden Globes win really tells us about success as an older woman