'If I was removed from the hurly burly of these speeded up days when I was trying my best to slow down, I would be able to patiently and logically think it all through. To untangle this conundrum. I would be able to find the thing I had lost. Probably the most important thing I owned. My identity.' Part memoir, part expert advice and part personal stories from women aged 40 to 60, What's Wrong with Me? is a compelling, honest and reassuring guide to enjoying a magnificent midlife. The former magazine editor-in-chief of Cosmo and ELLE, Sunday Times bestselling author and now parenting columnist, explores midlife and draws on interviews with Gen X celebrities from the podcast she co-hosts Postcards From Midlife. As a 54-year-old married mum of four, Lorraine tackles everything from empty nest, career reinventions, sex, perimenopause and menopause, and presents midlife as a liberating and transformational stage of life (something to look forward to rather than dread). Here is a book to make the women of Gen X feel less alone as they embrace life, to make them laugh and see that they are not alone.

Sunday Times bestseller 'The mothering manual we all need' Claudia Winkleman Calling all Mums: Are you feeling lonely and confused? Are you panicking that you're getting everything wrong? Do you feel as if your relationship with your teenage daughter has worsened overnight? Don't worry, you're not alone. Enter parenting columnist Lorraine Candy, a mum of four (including three teens). Her warm, witty, and wise memoir will gently lead you to a harmonious place. This book is a reassuring survivor's guide to the highs and lows of parenting adolescents. It will reconnect you to your daughter and help you feel good about your mothering.

Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ‘The mothering manual we all need’ Claudia Winkleman Mums: are you feeling lonely, confused or worried? Are you panicking that maybe you’re getting everything wrong? Does it, in the words of Lorraine Candy’s own teenage daughter, ‘suck to be you’ (Mum) right now? Welcome to the most challenging part of your parenting journey: the teenage years. It was all going so well and then, out of the blue, the little girl you love to the moon and back turned into an irrational, fire-breathing dragon. She lives in a messy pit of wet towels and sticky mugs, hoarding other people’s phone chargers and eyebrow tweezers, while rudely rejecting maternal intervention or affection. Do not worry. You’re not alone. Parenting columnist Lorraine Candy, a mum of four (including three teens), is here to help. Her warm and witty family memoir will lead you to a more harmonious parenting place. Alongside a wealth of hilarious personal anecdotes, Candy offers you useful, easy-to-follow, well-researched guidance from experts. This is a survivor’s guide for mums. This book will help you connect with your daughter and feel good about your mothering as you raise the bright and brilliant young women of tomorrow.