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- What it's like in words : a novel / by Moss, Eliza,author.;
- "Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren't ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now. She wants to be a writer but can't finish a first draft; she romanticizes her childhood but won't speak to her mother; she has never been in a serious relationship but yearns to be one half of a couple that DIYs together at the weekends. Enter: enigmatic writer. Enola falls in love and starts to dream about their perfect future: the wedding, the publishing deals, the house in Stoke Newington. But the reality is far from perfect. He's distant. But she's a Cool Girl, she doesn't need to hear from him every day. He hangs out with his ex. But she's a Cool Girl, she's not insecure. Is she? He has dark moods. But he's a creative, that's part of his 'process'. Her best friend begs her to end it, but Enola can't. She's a Cool Girl. She might feel like she's going crazy at times, but she wants him. She needs him. She would die without him ... That's what love is, isn't it? Over the next twenty-four hours (and two years), everything that Enola thinks she knows is about to unravel, and she has to think again about how she sees love, family, and friendship and-most importantly-herself. With notes of Fleabag & I May Destroy You but with the sparseness and emotional accuracy of writers like Ali Smith and Lily King, What It's Like In Words is a close examination of what it means to experience the intense emotional uncertainty of first love"--
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Love; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged women; Women;
- Confessions with Keith : extracts from the journals of Vita Glass / by Holdstock, Pauline,1948-author.;
- "An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis--her husband's and her own. Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesn't notice that her house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. Meanwhile, Vita's eldest son is embarking on his professional career as a teenaged stoner, her eldest daughter can't be seen in public with her lest she succumb of mortal embarrassment, her younger son's gerbils won't stop having babies, and the baby of the family suffers debilitating grief over certain memories, including the thought of the Cats soundtrack and that one time she stepped on a hornet's nest. Plus the family dog is a Greek chorus of puke. Vita can barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off. Our heroine's only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewise--in the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vita's journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Families; Middle-aged women; Midlife crisis; Women authors;
- I remember nothing : and other reflections / by Ephron, Nora.;
- Subjects: Ephron, Nora.; American essays.; American wit and humor.; Middle-aged women;
- © 2010., Knopf,
- A boring wife settles the score / by Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-author.; Aaronson, Arielle,translator.; translation of:Lavoie, Marie-Renée,1974-Diane demande un recomptage.English.;
- "A Boring Wife Settles the Score marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling Autopsy of a Boring Wife. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give. Determined not to waste her days -- that's just not her style -- she finds a job in a daycare and solace in cocktails with her best friend, Claudine, who convinces Diane her love life is not over. Diane wants romance and sees no reason why she shouldn't have it, but she soon discovers, in her typically chaotic and hilarious manner, that for a woman approaching her fifties the task is not so simple as it is for a man."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Middle-aged women; Separated women; Female friendship;
- Before the change : taking charge of your perimenopause / by Gittleman, Ann Louise.;
- Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
- Subjects: Perimenopause.; Menopause.; Menopause; Middle-aged women;
- Getting to happy / by McMillan, Terry.;
- Subjects: African American women; Female friendship; Middle-aged women;
- © c2010., Viking,
- Tilda is visible : a novel / by Tara, Jane,author.;
- "When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised - she's felt invisible for years. She has a good life and a successful business selling inspirational quotes on merchandise. But she's never really recovered from her divorce. Or, if she's honest, her childhood. Tilda's past has taken a toll and she's lost sight of herself. Now, with the possibility of completely disappearing, she must face the trauma of her past and rewrite the way she perceives the world, and herself. Entertaining, hilarious and poignant, Tilda Is Visible addresses the power of our thoughts and how childhood trauma shapes our adult experience"--
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Incurable diseases; Invisibility; Middle-aged women; Psychic trauma;
- When in Rome : a novel / by Callanan, Liam,author.;
- Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Convents; Middle-aged women; Nuns;
- Wife 22 : a novel / by Gideon, Melanie,1963-;
- Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Middle-aged women; Surveys; Wives; Working mothers;
- © c2012., Ballantine Books,
- The Galveston diet : the doctor-developed, patient-proven plan to burn fat and tame your hormonal symptoms / by Haver, Mary Claire,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Providing forty delicious recipes, six weeks of easy-to-follow meal plans, shopping lists, and success stories, a practicing OB/GYN offers a unique plan that will help women in midlife lose weight permanently while enjoying newfound energy, better sleep, less brain fog, and fewer hot flashes.
- Subjects: Recipes.; Menopause; Middle-aged women; Middle-aged women; Perimenopause; Reducing diets.;
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