- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (1 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141036745
- ISBN-13: 978-0141036748
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 54,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas...
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
Should I wax my moustache?
Am I too old for a leather jacket?
Am I having the right amount of sex?
Why do I hate my best friend?
Am I turning into my mother?
This frank, funny, insightful guide to navigating those tricky midlife years, now that looking older than thirty-six is an act of negligence on a par with not feeding the fish, answers all these questions and many more. How to Meet a Man After Forty (and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved) is like having a conversation with your sharpest, most trusted, least smug girlfriend about the things that keep us awake at night. It's not just for single girls, it's for everyone who has ever thought, "Is it just me or is life getting much, much weirder?"
Shane Watson is an author, journalist and Sunday Times columnist who met and married a man in her forties. She is, in other words, the statistic-defying exception to the rule; a beacon of hope for single women in the thirty-five-plus category who want to find Mr Right and not just Mr Gigantic Compromise.
From the Back Cover
`Shane is simply screamingly funny about the things that happen to women in their forties...adorable...I'd advise every single woman to have a copy in their bathroom' Evening Standard
`Hilarious, will give hope to every singleton...sharply observed' Daily Mail
`Hugely entertaining, pertinent and a far cry from the usual patronising pulp' London Lite
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read some of the extracts from this book in the Sunday Times, which made me laugh so much I went and bought the book. Shane Watson is a very funny and wise writer who has an ability to really nail an issue. I love her columns, and I have loved reading this book. She had been single for nearly a decade when she met the man who is now her husband, and this book is about that journey. Its also full of hilarious but also very apt advice about relationships and love, and should be essential reading for anyone who is single but looking for a mate in their thirties and beyond.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is excellent, anyone who has been single for any length of time after their mid-thirties will relate to it. Few books make me laugh out loud, but this one did - brilliant stuff, Shane. Great to read something funny, upbeat and pragmatic on this subject - I couldn't put it down. The book makes a refreshing change from the usual media scaremongering on single women over thirty. Ignore the Amazon review from bitter Harry - he's not actually described in the book as the type of man to avoid, but perhaps he will be in the next edition.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
just bought this with "split: a story of love betrayal and divorce" by Suzanne Finnamore ... Together these two books kept me laughing and taking notes and ringing up friends to read the best bits out loud. These two women should be on the telly to keep us all from going bonkers. Super!!!!
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Crying with Laughter
I so loved this book! Shane Watson has an uncanny way of describing what sounds like a very personal experience but one that taps into the universal female brain in the way that... Read more
Published 6 months ago by JeniP
The Book to change your attitude
This book is written in a very much "down to earth" style. Maybe I would find it hilarious, as some other reviewers did, if I weren't divorced and so many things in the book... Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by V.G.
Don't Date Without It!
I bought this book because I enjoy Shane Watson's column in the Sunday Times STYLE magazine so much and How To Meet A Man After Forty does not disappoint. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by Fiona O'Brien
Handy book to have for advice
I found bits of this book interesting like the types of dates and types of friends. Some parts hilarious like the mother-daughter relationship. Full of advice so one for the girls!
Published on 2 May 2009 by K. Chan
Quite funny and clever but not as witty as it thinks it is.
Maybe this book will appeal more to girls than guys. I liked it, and it is funny in parts - but not 'laugh out loud' funny as some people have claimed it to be. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2009 by Ocelot Octagon
Even under 40's can read this one...
How to meet a man over 40, and other midlife dilemas solved.
I bought this book as a birthday present for my daughter who has recently split with her partner. Read more
I bought this book as a birthday present for my daughter who has recently split with her partner. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by languedoc
Both wise and funny
What a refreshing change - wisdom combined with laugh-out-loud humour. But be prepared to laugh at yourself too - Ms Watson has an unerring eye for everything that's shallow and... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2009 by Daisy Wang
How to Meet a Man After Forty
Something to laugh at yourself over. Oh yes, I made a 'list' too. Makes you think about yourself too
Published on 25 Feb 2009 by mam highfield
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
