Book description
Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less
well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied
by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory
essay by Charles Handy. This generation of women is entering the sixties
more healthy, more educated and more energetic than most of their
mothers. The subjects in this book provide the models for what has
become, for the first time, a new age for many women. Released from most
of the cares and responsibilities that accompany midlife for women, they
are free to reinvent themselves, to give more time to their career or
calling, or to luxuriate in the serenity and friendships that few had
time for in the past. Some enter new relationships, some start new
careers or go back to study, some find that their work is only now
reaching its peak. Many have survived traumas and tragedies, but 'the
past is just the prologue' as one of them explains. Elizabeth Handy is
a successful portrait photographer. Her husband, Charles, is best known
for books like The Empty Raincoat, which has sold over a million around
the world. This is their second major collaboration, after The New
Alchemists.
