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Her day has been long and arduous — a 12-hour stint at work, followed by cooking dinner, stacking the dishwasher, doing the laundry, catching up on paperwork and walking the dog. So it may come as a surprise to other women her age that, when 52-year-old Hayley Garbutt falls into bed at midnight, she has … Read more
Her day has been long and arduous — a 12-hour stint at work, followed by cooking dinner, stacking the dishwasher, doing the laundry, catching up on paperwork and walking the dog. So it may come as a surprise to other women her age that, when 52-year-old Hayley Garbutt falls into bed at midnight, she has … Read more
Midlife fireworks, anyone? Fifty-plus looks nothing like it used to. Asked to conjure up an image of a middle-aged woman 20 years ago, most would picture a stout female in sensible shoes, pottering about in the garden. Now look at Jennifer Lopez – who turned 50 last summer – and you’ll see things have changed. We’re different … Read more
As a portrait of a man’s mental collapse, Trevor Eve’s debut novel is brutal. Its central character, Ever Millen, has a mind that fragments despite the pharmacopoeia of uppers, downers and sleeping pills he snatches at to halt his decline. It’s fiction, but you have to wonder just how familiar Eve is, personally, with the … Read more