Book Reviews

By Kate Duggan Books to uplift, inspire and help you to move forwards.

The Shift – Sam Baker Whether you’re just approac ching the perimenopause or have reached the other side, Shift is a must read. It covers everything from m common ferent typeffalistofallthedif or discover a magic curTs of HR re-all for (and found) herself after 40 – and how you can too. I loved the author

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wry humour and admission that she doesn’t have all the answers. Interspersed with her writing g are quotes from hundreds of women, fering views to tffrevealing dif he menopause, ageing and life in general.

Where Hope Comes From – Nikita Gill Nikita Gill’s poems take the reader on a jou urney through the stages of grief, onwards to o hope. Gill is at high risk from Covid-19 and lives thousands of miles explained on Instagram, “When I realised that I needed to honour my grief and collection of short poems to help the reader “… come away with a little more joy One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot t – Marianne Cronin yet someh Yow One Hundred Yeears of Lenni and Margot manages to be just that. seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot meet in hospital. They set themse elves a challenge of painting a hu undred pictures, one for every year of the original focus in on Lenni, it’s Margot’s life, with all its ups, downs and loves lost, that ends up taking centre stage. p g g Do Pause e – Robert Poynton Poynton discusses how pausing (whether to reconsider, question yourself, appreciate e your surroundings or just rest) can help us to take back control, become you’re look king for. The Atlas of Happiness – Helen Russell Helen Russell explores traditions, practices s and beliefs from around the world, from the It talian ‘dolce far niente’ (the joy of doing nothing) to Japan’s ‘wabi-sabi’ (appreciating things as they are, with all the eir imperfections). She also offf fers advice

Other books to try… I’ve covered these before, but in case you missed them, I highly recommend: •

The Midnigs Matt Haig’ ht Library

The Bs Charlie Mackesy’ The The Fox and The Mole, , oy Horse s HumBrandon Stanton’ ans