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How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis

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An empowering guide which uses science, personal experience and women’s stories to show that midlife isn’t decline but a bold turning point toward a magnificent future’ Davina McCall The smart guide that every midlife woman needs to read … Forget everything you’ve been told about midlife.... Read More
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An essential guide, showing midlife women how to have the happiest, most fulfilled and fun second half from writer, campaigner and documentary maker Kate Muir.

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An empowering guide which uses science, personal experience and women’s stories to show that midlife isn’t decline but a bold turning point toward a magnificent future’ Davina McCall

The smart guide that every midlife woman needs to read …

Forget everything you’ve been told about midlife. For millennia, women have been led to believe that it’s a time of decline. On the contrary, it is a time of transformation and re-formation; a turning point when we can move towards a bigger, better and more magnificent future. And who better to help you navigate this complex and wildly exciting time than women’s health campaigner and documentary maker Kate Muir.

In this essential and empowering guide, Kate draws upon scientific research, personal experience and the courageous and humorous stories of women to arm you with the knowledge you need to approach your second half with confidence, purpose and energy. She reveals how to:

  • have better sex (after decades of trying)
  • take advantage of brain rewiring in menopause
  • upgrade your relationships and friendships
  • change your job and find a creative renaissance
  • avoid the midlife muffin top and love your microbiome

How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis is your time to reset, renew and refresh ...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398525504

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Gallery

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 416

About the Author

Kate Muir is a writer, filmmaker and women's health campaigner. She produced two groundbreaking Channel 4 documentaries on the menopause, which ignited a massive conversation in the UK, and is the author of Everything You Need to Know About the Pill. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for The Times in New York and Washington, before becoming the newspaper's chief film critic. She has written five non-fiction books and three novels.

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