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The Shift With Sam Baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

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Hi all Just a quick one to let you all know that, unexpectedly, I need to take the next week or so off writing the newsletter.

Charlotte Wood: 'I don't fear ageing, but I do fear becoming a boring, annoying old person!'

The bestselling Australian author of The Weekend and Stone Yard Devotional talks cancer, ageing, excess, brain melt, retirement and rectifying the way older women are represented

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Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

What's got my attention over the past seven days #161

Elizabeth Gilbert on love, loss, learning & liberation

Twenty years on from Eat Pray Love, Liz shares learnings from her most healing decade - her 50s

Catch up with Maggie O'Farrell at The Shift bookclub live

Talking about the intimate family story that inspired her new straight-to-No1 bestseller, with the smash hit author of Hamnet and this month's pick, LAND

Introducing our August bookclub pick

Join us this month to read Whistler by Ann Patchett, win free copies and meet Ann at The Shift bookclub Live on 7 September

Helen Thorn: 'I remember feeling, this is going to be hard, but this is the hard that I choose.'

The podcaster and comedian talks candidly about surviving a brutal divorce and her post divorce rebellion, losing your thirtysomething life blinkers, the cult of the hopeless man and so much more

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Meet Maggie O'Farrell at The Shift Bookclub Live - TIME CHANGE!

Maggie O'Farrell will be with us at the amended time of 9pm BST tomorrow, Tuesday 11 August, to talk about our July bookclub pick, LAND

Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

What's got my attention over the past seven days #160

What I think about when I’m avoiding thinking about work

From the apocalyptic to the ridiculous

Jennie Godfrey: 'Midlife is a powerful place if you lean into it'

The bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things talks losing yourself in your 40s, following your childhood dreams, recognising balance when she swings past it and finally becoming visible

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