Raging Gracefully

Women over forty gather to give voice to the unique challenges and choices that colour this glorious yet gut-wrenching time of life. This engaging, endearing collection of true-life stories reveals the guts and glory of women old enough to know who they are, and run with it: A grieving widow of forty-nine experiences the healing powers of friendship, laughter and water while vacationing and skinny-dipping in Mexico with sister-friends. A committed bachelorette has a change of heart and ties the knot in her sixtieth year. A once mild-mannered woman raves about her unexpected menopausal rage, whiskers, weight gain, crushing fatigue and crashing libido, and refuses to go without a fight into that dark crone's night. In mid-life, the truth comes out whether we like it or not, about life, about death, about what really matters. But, through it all we can still have some fun, and this is the book that proves it.