Book of the Week: Fabulously 40 and beyond
Life is not always about us youngens you know… and besides that we are all going to turn the big 40 one day, (if we live that long), so why not read what it is like to be a forty year old woman living in South Africa, straight from the real deal women themselves, can’t wait to get their perspective…
Book: Fabulously 40 and beyond
Author : Orford, Margie;Schimke, Karin
Subtitle: Coming into Your Power an Embracing Change
Our price: R 128.00
Availability: Approx. 5 – 9 Working Days
Paperback
EAN : 9780864865885
144 pages
Publication Date : 30 September 2006
Publisher : New Africa Education Publishing,South Africa
Country of publication: South Africa
Synopsis
The authors spent time finding out how South African women respond to this phenomenon referred to as over 40. The result is a title that a woman would give to herself, to a friend or to a daughter going through this big transition period that involves psychological and physiological change that brings about much contemplation.
Fabulously 40 and beyond is written primarily from an extensive base of questionnaires as well as from feedback from media work during the books development. The authors then synthesised and wrote this title from an extensive base of questionnaires and from feedback from media work to bring on important themes including identity, spirituality, body, family and other animals, leisure and pleasure.
At the centre is a certain power that women come into as they move into their 40s and beyond which is a clear measure of where women in their 40s are at. Clearly, the title demonstrates that these women have humour, lightness, know how much they own, and do juggle things to get things in life to go the way they want.
The book offers practical advice as well as relevant statistics. During the research phase Fabulously 40 and beyond saw much media interest including a feature on SAFM Otherwise, in Femina magazine and on Radio 702. This is no doubt a much-needed book that fills a gap dealing with this often difficult or traumatic stage in womens lives.
