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elcome to Menopause Life’s summer book club. We hope you enjoyed some of our Spring recommendations. Here at Menopause Experts, we are looking forward to some warm summer days, there’s nothing nicer than sitting under a parasol or in the shade of a tree, being in nature and absorbed in a good book. Thank you to Paula from Waterstones for her help with compiling this list
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
‘Your ability to change everything, including yourself, starts here’ – Elizabeth Zott Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out there is no such thing. It’s the early 60s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel prize-nominated grudge holder who falls in love with, of all things, her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Follow Elizabeth’s journey from chemist to single mother and reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show! It turns out Elizabeth isn’t just teaching women to cook, she’s daring them to change the status quo! Meet the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott.
Run Rose Run
by Dolly Parton and James Patterson The country music legend and the bestselling crime writer join forces to craft an unputdownable thriller of glamourous dreams and deadly pasts as a young singer determines to make it big in Nashville. A thriller about a young singersongwriter on the rise and on the run and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her and destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire.
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MENOPAUSE LIFE SUMMER 2022
ONE DAY I SHALL ASTONISH THE WORLD by Nina Stibbe
From the author of Reasons to be Cheerful, comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime. A funny perceptive meditation on marriage and middle age, as Susan begins to question the merits of her 20-year relationship with Roy and questions whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work and most importantly friendship. „ Funny, charming, odd-in-the-best-way and gorgeously uplifting! A delight from start to finish” – Marion Keyes
SPRING CANNOT BE CANCELLED
by David Hockney & Martin Gayford The iconic octogenarian artist holds forth about life, art and the upside of lockdown in his rustic Normandy farmhouse in a series of candid, insightful conversations with his longtime friend and collaborator, the art critic Martin Gayford. “I intend to carry on with my work, which I now see as very important. We have lost touch with nature rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it” – David Hockney. David, on turning eighty sought out rustic tranquillity for the first time, a place to watch the sunset and the change of the seasons, a place to live a life of simple pleasures, undisturbed and undistracted, a place to keep the madness of the world at bay. So, when covid and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life in the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse, where Hockney set up a studio a year before in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished his enforced isolation as an opportunity for a greater devotion to his work.
