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How to Get Over Being Young

A Rough Guide to Midlife

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Award-winning journalist Charlotte Bauer's warm, witty and wise quest for the meaning of life after youth and how to navigate the menopausal years.

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife - an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman's adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years.

Through her own experiences as a 50-something woman, and those of her three sisters, her indomitable mum and rebellious auntie, Charlotte tackles the big questions every woman seeks answers to at this time of our lives - chiefly: how the hell am I going to get over being young in a world obsessed with youth?

Written with warmth, wisdom and irreverence, this guide to midlife is perfect for listeners of Nora Ephron, Caitlin Moran and India Knight.

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I was delighted to find this book by an admired South African journalist on Audible. I loved the older characters of the mother and aunt and there were some very entertaining anecdotes. I found the story rather too whiny and the moaning about South Africa became a bit much - fair comment on the violence and terrible history, but surely there could be a dash of slight positivity for a place in which she spent much of her life? The narrator seemed far too laid back and I did not think she did the book justice at all - I thought that much of the humour was lost - I think that this book would be more entertaining in the printed version.

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