Weekend read:  The meaning of life after youth

Charlotte Bauer didn’t see middle age coming. Who does? The indignation! The outrage! The disbelief.  If you can identify, you’re going to love How To Get Over Being Young, this SA award-winning journalist warm, witty and wise quest for the meaning of life after youth and how to navigate the menopausal years. Laugh out loud funny, it’s an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of her adventures and misadventures through the dark comedy of the wilderness years.

Through her own experiences as a fifty-something woman, and those of her three sisters, her indomitable mum and rebellious auntie, Charlotte tackles the big questions every woman seeks answers to at this time of our lives – chiefly: How the hell am I going to get over being young in a world obsessed with youth? Atlantic Books.

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