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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

Losing my dads

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

Summer reading roundup

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

Can't cook, won't cook

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

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey

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"

ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"

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

“I don't want a long goodbye”

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

Tuesday Chat

Judi Dench's Face

NEW EPISODE: Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose

What's got my attention this week #86

"If you feel like you're blowing up your life, ask yourself if the opposite is true. Maybe you're bringing your real life into being for the first time."

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

On running to and from

Catch up with our January The Shift Bookclub(s) LIVE

February Bookclub reveal!

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 is fear?

What's got my attention this week #80

What Demi Moore's Golden Globes win really tells us about success as an older woman