Older, but Better, but Older: From the Authors of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are - Hardcover

De Maigret, Caroline; Mas, Sophie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385544863 ISBN 13: 9780385544863

Publisher: Doubleday, 2019

Synopsis

From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian—”a book to read late at night in one go and then buy for your girlfriends” (Vogue UK) about what smart, savvy, fabulous women think, feel, and advise about growing older.

Older, but Better, but Older has the playful wit, self deprecation and worldly advice we have come to expect from these bestselling authors, but now that advice is focused on the French woman's mindset as she hurtles towards forty. Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Mas are back to amuse you with how they find they are modifying their favorite bad-girl behavior as they address beauty, love, seduction as well as lifestyle, family, work, and living alone.

They are still bohemian iconoclasts saying what you don't expect to hear. They will tell you things aren't what they used to be--when a thirty-year-old guy arrives at a party and does not even glance at you; when you wake up feeling great and everyone tells you how tired you look; you know you're an adult when you're excited just to go home.

Neuroses vs. confidence, resistance vs. acceptance, passion vs. serenity, de Maigret and Mas through spirited short stories capture the different stages of ageing--as nostalgic but modern Parisian women. From the privately absurd to the strangely universal, this book captures moments of everyday life that will make the reader nod, cringe, and laugh out loud.

About this title

About the Author

CAROLINE DE MAIGRET is an international model; she has been an ambassador and spokesperson for Chanel since 2013; a music producer at Bonus Tracks Records and fashion video producer for CDM Production. She is an activist for women's and children's rights supporting NGOs such as UN Women and Care International. She lives in Paris with her twelve-year-old son.

SOPHIE MAS is a film producer working between Paris and the United States. Her filmography includes Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadagnino and the upcoming features of James Gray and Oliver Assayas.

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YOU KNOW THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE

When you wake up feeling great and everyone tells you how tired you look.

When you go to see the dermatologist to check a mole and he asks where you want the Botox.

When a thirty-­year-­old guy arrives at a party and ­doesn’t even glance at you.

When you can guess from his personality what kind of a lover he is.

When the President of France is younger than you.

When you have more hangovers than actual parties.

When in all honesty you’d rather have sex in bed than in the shower.

When you go to the gym to do cardio, and no longer just to work on your abs.

When you find yourself putting on makeup every day.

When you think you look good in a photo of yourself at twenty that until now you’d always thought was terrible.

When you no longer know who all the hip actors or singers are.

When someone says you have a sexy gaze, but you’re actually just squinting because you don’t want to get your glasses out.

When you tell someone you’ve known them since they were in diapers.

When you share an anecdote from ten years ago and realize it’s actually been twenty.

When you’d rather go to bed early to make the most of the next day.

When you start finding biographies fascinating.

When you’re just excited to go home.

When your colleague was born the same year you graduated.

When people no longer ask if you plan on having another baby.

When a young woman says she hopes to look like you someday.

When you go to the ob-­gyn for mammograms rather than birth control.

When you feel an ache somewhere and fear it might be the beginning of the end.

When one of your eyes is smaller than the other.

When selecting your year of birth on a website means scrolling down forever.

When the face ID on your cellphone ­doesn’t recognize you in the morning.

When you’re told that you’re “damn hot for your age.”

When you smile at the naïveté of a young woman’s remark, whereas before you would have just found her stupid.

When you think that’s a pillow mark on your cheek, but it’s still there a week later.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385544863
• ISBN 13: 9780385544863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272