Midlife Journeys

Join good friends Lorraine Candy and Christie Watson for an uplifting evening of honest conversation, hilarity and practical tips for living your best midlife.

Award winning journalist, Lorraine Candy's new book What's Wrong with Me: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know tackles everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause this laugh out loud memoir is a pathfinder for women whose messy midlife rage caught them by surprise. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, the book will help women feel less alone as they embrace this liberating and transformational new stage of life.

There’s magic within these pages" Jo Wiley

‘Few books tackle both the physical and emotional elements of women's midlife experience but this one does with warmth, wit and seriously helpful advice. It's a practical and gentle nudge for women towards a happier, healthier and more uplifting midlife experience' Julia Samuel MBE

The bestselling author of The Language of Kindness, Christie Watson brings us Quilt on Fire - a frank, funny and inspiring new memoir about the search for meaning in midlife. This is the story of her journey through midlife: of the joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, of the unstoppable power of female friendship and the struggle to raise teenagers as a single parent. It lays bare the exhilaration, agony, wonder and fears of being a middle-aged woman with a wild heart, a changing body and a new set of challenges. And as her world takes on a different shape, there's something else she starts to feel: the hot flush of possibility...

'A wildly entertaining and necessary book' Elizabeth Day

'You don't have to be in midlife to appreciate this funny, real, empathetic memoir about the multitudes contained in every woman... You'll feel as if you've found a kindred spirit' Red

Lorraine Candy has over a decade of experience writing about parenting in national newspapers and magazines. Mum, What's Wrong with You? is her book about parenting teens. She co-hosts the brilliant Postcards from Midlife podcast which features the stories of spirited midlife women and tackles parenting adolescents. Formerly the editor-in-chief of Sunday Times Style, ELLE and Cosmopolitan, she is now focusing full-time on writing.

Christie Watson is Professor of Medical Humanities at UEA and worked as an NHS nurse for over twenty years. She has written five books, including her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel Award, and memoir, The Language of Kindness which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Christie is a contributor to The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and TEDx, and her work has been translated into 23 languages and adapted for theatre.