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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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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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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.
173 of 189 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
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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Don't waste the 2nd half of your life reading this book
Looking for inspiration, I borrowed this book from our local library. I give it 2 points for a) some of the candid comments about what menopause really means and b) a few of the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by M. T. Norfield
Same few points made over and over again
Cannot understand why this book was so well reviewed. The author makes the same basic points about diet, exercise, hobbies, maintaining positive outlook.... again, and again. Read more
Published 5 months ago by MJ
Not worth the reviews on the book cover
This book has so many questionable assumptions and generalisations. In addition, it is exclusively aimed at women who have looked after husbands and children and don't know what to... Read more
Published 7 months ago by April May
The Second Half of Your Life
I came across an article about this book and as I am in the second half of my life I decided to purchase it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Maura
A must read
i thought this book was an excellent read on menopause. It is very well written but also very sensitive on the subject. Read more
Published 12 months ago by d. Peltz
Finally someone who understands
I can't think of any woman this great side of 50 who would not enjoy reading The Second Half of Your Life- and in fact sort of want to inhale it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jeany
Truly Inspirational
I was given a copy of THE SECOND HALF OF YOUR LIFE and simply loved it. It completely "hits the spot" for those of us lurching towards 50 and whose children are flying the nest.
Published 12 months ago by Holly C
we never thought about menopause when we were little girls
How many people contemplate the issues typical of menopause before we, ourselves, are confronted with it. Read more
Published 13 months ago by partner
a londoner who needs a boost!
This really was eye opening and I was thrilled to share it with all my friends, and my husband. Well done for making us all excited rather than fearful of what is soon to come our... Read more
Published 13 months ago by a friend
THIS BOOK IS A NON EVENT: DON'T BUY IT
I read an article by the author in a local newspaper over a year ago. So it had my interest piqued. When the book came out a few months ago, I went to hear the author speak on a... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Nurse Nancy
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