Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is fifty, but not in a good way.Fifty, in Kate’s mind, equals invisibility, and she’s caught between her traitorous hormones, unknowable teenage children and ailing parents.She’s back at work after a break, now that her husband Rich has dropped out of the rat race to master the art of mindfulness. But just as Kate is finding a few tricks to get by, her old client and flame Jack reappears – complicated doesn’t even begin to cover it…
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Allison Pearson. How Hard Can It Be?
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Dedication
Epigraph
PROLOGUE. COUNTDOWN TO INVISIBILITY: T MINUS SIX MONTHS AND TWO DAYS
1. BATS IN THE BELFIE. SEPTEMBER
2. THE HAS-BEEN
3. THE BOTTOM LINE
4. GHOSTS
5. FIVE MORE MINUTES
6. OF MICE AND MENOPAUSE
7. BACK TO THE FUTURE
8. OLD AND NEW
9. GENUINE FAKE
10. REBIRTH OF A SALESWOMAN
11. TWELFTH NIGHT (OR WHAT YOU WON’T)
12. CATCH-32
13. THOSE STUBBORN AREAS. NOVEMBER
14. THE COLLEGE REUNION
15. CALAMITY GIRL
16. HELP!
17. THE ROCK WIDOW
18. THE OFFICE PARTY
19. COITUS INTERRUPTUS
20. MERRY CHRISTMAS
NEW YEAR’S EVE
21. THE MERE IDEA OF YOU. JANUARY
22. MADONNA AND MUM
23. NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE
24. FOR WHOM THE BELFIE TOLLS
25. CUT TO THE QUICK
26. REDEMPTION
27. GUILTY SECRET
28. 11THMARCH
29. AFTER ALL. Sixteen months later
FOOTNOTES. 2. THE HAS-BEEN
5. FIVE MORE MINUTES
6. OF MICE AND MENOPAUSE
9. GENUINE FAKE
11. TWELFTH NIGHT (OR WHAT YOU WON’T)
22. MADONNA AND MUM
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Also by Allison Pearson
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‘Revolutionary … Both funny and unflinching’
ELIZABETH DAY, Daily Telegraph
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‘Seriously, the bottom line is she got thousands of Likes for this picture of her …’
‘Well, well, young man,’ says Richard, looking up briefly from his frogspawn yogurt, or whatever it is he’s eating these days, ‘it’s good to hear you saying something positive about your sister for a change. Isn’t it, Kate?’
