Oh Crap – I’m 50!: A Journey from Fearful to Fabulous (Sometimes)

As her 50th birthday approached, Jo Blackwell felt old, unfit, irrelevant and quietly terrified — so she started writing. The blog that became this book struck a chord with thousands of women asking the same question: what the heck just happened to my life? Collected here, the posts are wry, raw and reassuring by turns — ageing bodies, hormones, confidence, grief — landing on the simple conclusion that life is about family, friends, community and being useful, and that she was OK just as she was.

The honest, funny end of the midlife shelf.