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"This book will make you want to run straight into the arms of menopause, embrace it and get to the best years of your life - no longer a slave to your hormones. Free at last, free at last"--Ruby Wax
"Heralded as one of the most important women's books for a decade. Every now and again, a woman's book comes along that promises to change our thinking forever. Helen Gurley Brown, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French. Now it is the turn of Jill Shaw Ruddock to shake us all up and ask new questions about our lives. A guaranteed best seller"--The Lady
"There is nothing airy fairy about the woman proclaiming the 'fourth wave of feminism'. Her energy and idealism make a formidable combination. If anyone can persuade others that old is to be celebrated it is Jill Shaw Ruddock."--Cassandra Jardine, The Telegraph
"{Ruddock]... has just written a ground-breaking book called, The Second Half of Your Life. Hugely liberating, empowering and transforming.”--Joy Orpen Kanter, The Sunday Independent
"The script for those fruitful years between 50 and 96 needed to be written. My only criticism? That I hadn't written it myself."--Christa D'Souza, Mail on Sunday
"Nora Ephron published I Feel Bad About My Neck, but a new book The Second Half of Your Life, is not a memoir but a self help book aimed squarely at women like me whose ovaries no longer function. Hugely ambitious. We need a book like this"--Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times
"The Ruddock dynamo has definitely set something in motion. I say to Ruddock,bring on the granny boomers."--The Sunday Times
"The Second Half of Your Life - part self help manual and part scientific treatise. She's great on financial advice and inspiring on her unrelenting optimism on behalf of older women."--Alison Roberts, The Evening Standard
"Inspirational."--Victoria Lambert, Women and Home
"Good news for women. Jill Shaw Ruddock writes an upbeat menopause manual."--The Jewish Chronicle
"Heralded as one of the most important women's books for a decade. Every now and again, a woman's book comes along that promises to change our thinking forever. Helen Gurley Brown, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French. Now it is the turn of Jill Shaw Ruddock to shake us all up and ask new questions about our lives. A guaranteed best seller"--The Lady
"There is nothing airy fairy about the woman proclaiming the 'fourth wave of feminism'. Her energy and idealism make a formidable combination. If anyone can persuade others that old is to be celebrated it is Jill Shaw Ruddock."--Cassandra Jardine, The Telegraph
"{Ruddock]... has just written a ground-breaking book called, The Second Half of Your Life. Hugely liberating, empowering and transforming.”--Joy Orpen Kanter, The Sunday Independent
"The script for those fruitful years between 50 and 96 needed to be written. My only criticism? That I hadn't written it myself."--Christa D'Souza, Mail on Sunday
"Nora Ephron published I Feel Bad About My Neck, but a new book The Second Half of Your Life, is not a memoir but a self help book aimed squarely at women like me whose ovaries no longer function. Hugely ambitious. We need a book like this"--Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times
"The Ruddock dynamo has definitely set something in motion. I say to Ruddock,bring on the granny boomers."--The Sunday Times
"The Second Half of Your Life - part self help manual and part scientific treatise. She's great on financial advice and inspiring on her unrelenting optimism on behalf of older women."--Alison Roberts, The Evening Standard
"Inspirational."--Victoria Lambert, Women and Home
"Good news for women. Jill Shaw Ruddock writes an upbeat menopause manual."--The Jewish Chronicle
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A positive, life-affirming book for women over 50 that encourages them to make the most of their post-menopausal years
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
only applicable if your life is already ok,
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This review is from: The Second Half of Your Life (Paperback)
The book as a whole is written like a magazine article.There are some good bits of information.The sort you already mostly know but have forgotten. However there are an awful lot of tips and suggestions that are only going to be possible if your life is already ok.You need money and you need good health. I can't find anything in here that will help if like me you have health issues, and isn't that one of the biggest challenges for many as we grow older.? To give an example of why this book frustrates and disappoints me. The author tells you to spend some time each day with people you love. It doesn't tell you how to cope if you have become isolated and simply cannot see people that you love each day! It would have been more realistic to have at least given suggestions of what else you can do.....eg, texting, emails, letters. Which is what I aim to do to fill the gap. Somewhere the author states "there is no excuse for grey hair until aged 75 or older" ! Maybe that will convey where this book is at and why I do not like it. I think that the second half of your life could be about embracing the strengths of getting older, not still chasing the superficial values we all tend to go along with when we are younger. Most of the advice is available from many other self help books. Not to mention our own common sense. This after all the second half of our lives ! This is not the book I am looking for.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
just okay,
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This review is from: The Second Half of Your Life (Paperback)
This seems to be to be a book written by a woman over fifty with time on her hands and who wanted to make some extra cash. It's the type of information that you find in woman's magazines. It is good if you are friendless and clueless. Personally if you find yourself a bit bewildered at fifty you'd be better off speaking to your friends and getting their views. I found it a bit depressing but if you feeling low when you hit the big '50' and want to think about it....It's not a bad book but it's not original and you could probably find better information elsewhere.
167 of 183 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Second Half of Your Life (Paperback)
This is a rather basic book. It's difficult to comprehend the flood of rave reviews about its life-changing nature. And all written within a couple of days?Curious about this, I clicked on the "see all my reviews" button for the first couple of dozen of the reviewers. Every one of them had only this review to their name. How likely is it that 47 people who have never reviewed a book on Amazon before will rush to the computer on the same couple of days to write a gushing five-star review for this book? Bear this in mind before rushing to buy.
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