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Out of Time (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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Out of Time (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern
look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of
the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight
and humour. 'You wake one day and everything is wrong. It's as
though you went out one warm evening - an evening fizzing with
delicious potential, so ripe and sticky-sweet you can taste it on
the air - for just one drink ... and woke up two days later in a
skip. Except you're not in a skip, you're in an estate car, on the
way to an out-of-town shopping mall to buy a balance bike, a roof
rack and some stackable storage boxes.' Miranda Sawyer's midlife
crisis began when she was 44. It wasn't a traditional one. She
didn't run off with a Pilates teacher, or blow thousands on a trip
to find herself. From the outside, all remained the same. Work,
kids, marriage, mortgage, blah. Days, weeks and months whizzed past
as she struggled with feeling - knowing - that she was over halfway
through her life. It seemed only yesterday that she was 29, out and
about. Out of Time is not a self-help book. It's an exploration of
this sudden crisis, this jolt. It looks at how our tastes, and our
bodies, change as we get older. It considers the unexpected new
pleasures that the second half of life can offer, from learning to
code to taking up running (slowly). Speaking to musicians and
artists, friends and colleagues, Miranda asks how they too have
confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, that they've learned
along the way.
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