Exploring notions of love, health and acceptance, the nurse and author of The Courage to Care takes a rueful look at mid-life and all the messiness, madness and magic that go with it.
A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from Christie Watson about the search for meaning in mid-life.
Quilt on Fire reframes mid-life with openness and honesty, and celebrates the messy magic of being a single woman in your forties.
Christie has been searching for the meaning of love since her early twenties: when the bright glow of emotion she experienced with her boyfriend turned out to be her bedroom quilt that had caught fire. Now, at the age of 44, following what she thought was a spectacular breakdown (and that turned out to be the peri-menopause), she asks the question: what does love mean now? Christie takes us on a very funny, sometimes shocking and touchingly poignant journey: through peri-menopause and single parenting, via a world pandemic, to a place of change and acceptance that her younger self would never have believed...
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784744045
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 317 g
Dimensions: 207 x 145 x 23 mm
Literary, gritty, joyful and very, very funny, reading Quilt on Fire is like hanging out with a best friend, one who knows you so well that she can see inside your soul... Virgina Woolf-sharp - Stacey Duguid, Sunday Telegraph
A superb chronicle of midlife and the chaos of the perimenopause. Candid, humorous, insightful, deeply empathetic, inspiring and utterly necessary - i Paper
You don't have to be in midlife to appreciate this funny, real, empathetic memoir about the multitudes contained in every woman... You'll feel as if you've found a kindred spirit - Red
[Quilt on Fire] stood out for its honesty and humour... A must-read for any woman in midlife - Good Housekeeping, 'This month's 10 books to read right now'
A funny, frank and informative blend of personal writing, research and conversations with friends... [Watson's] descriptions of her failing body are vivid and unflinching... Passages are moving, humbling and written with beautiful detail - Marianne Power, The Times
Witty,wise and compelling.
In Quilt of Fire Christie Watson manages to capture the experiences facing so many women in their 40s and 50s - trying to present to the world that everything is great while inside we're feeling a little bit... More
I completely disagree that all women should read this. All men should too. I got this on Fathers Day (a bit sceptical!) and not only could I not put it down, it's changed the way I think about what women deal... More
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