For all fans of Thursdays in the Park, Quartet or Amour - or the perfect 50th birthday gift.
Life begins at fifty . . . Well, it certainly does for Hope, though not at all as she had planned. She reluctantly hits her half-century on New Year's Day and six months later she has lost her job, her husband and her mother. But Hope has guts - and a sense of humour. By the time she reaches fifty-one, she has acquired a taste for designer underwear, a Labrador puppy - and the memory of one perfect night in Paris. Who says fifty is over the hill?
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Linda Kelsey is a freelance journalist and editor. A former editor of UK Cosmopolitan and She magazine, she has twice been awarded Editor of the year. She has also been involved in the UK launches of several other successful glossy women's magazines including In Style, Company, and Wedding Day. Fifty Is Not a Four-Letter Word is her first novel. She lives in London with her husband, son and Cuba the Labrador. In her next life she would like to be a professional singer.
Hope Lyndhurst-Steele has it all—a wonderful, loving husband; a great son; a job she loves as a magazine editor; and a lovely house in London. After her much-dreaded fiftieth birthday, everything she has come to rely on disappears. She is dismissed from her job and replaced with a younger, smarmier editor; her 18-year-old son starts dating the single mother down the street; and her husband leaves her. No wonder Hope is in a funk. And there is worse news on the horizon. Her mother announces at dinner that she is dying. How we cope with adversity offers great insight into people. Hope’s method is sleep, food, and huge doses of self-pity until she starts to wake up and realize that her life is not over, and that just maybe being 50 is the right place for her to be. Kelsey, a magazine editor herself, creates a witty foray into one woman’s psyche as she accepts her age and proves that there is, indeed, life and adventure after the 50-year milestone. --Patty Engelmann
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