Published in 2025
416 pages
Kate Muir is a women’s health campaigner, writer and documentary maker. Her book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis is out in 2025. Her previous books Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause and Everything You Need to Know About the Pill are out in paperback. Kate pitched and produced three groundbreaking menopause and pill documentaries with Davina McCall for Channel 4. Her novels are West Coast, Left Bank and Suffragette City, and her non-fiction books include Arms and the Woman about female soldiers going into combat. She was previously Chief Film Critic of The Times, and has worked as a correspondent for the paper in New York, Paris and Washington. She grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London.
What is this book about?
The smart guide that every midlife woman needs to read …
Forget everything you’ve been told about midlife. For millennia, women have been led to believe that it’s a time of decline. On the contrary, it is a time of transformation and re-formation; a turning point when we can move towards as bigger, better and more magnificent future. And who better to help you navigate this complex and wildly exciting time than women’s health campaigner and documentary maker Kate Muir.
In this essential and empowering guide, Kate draws upon scientific research, personal experience and the courageous and humorous stories of women to arm you with the knowledge you need to approach your second half with confidence, purpose and energy. She reveals how to:
- have better sex (after decades of trying)
- take advantage of brain rewiring in menopause
- upgrade your relationships and friendships
- change your job and find a creative renaissance
- avoid the midlife muffin top and love your microbiome
This is your time to reset, renew and refresh …
