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Being Old...and Learning to Love It!

by Prue Leith

Ageing, work and life’s later chapters

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Ageing, work and life’s later chapters

Prue Leith combines memoir with reflections on the practical and personal questions that come with ageing. The subjects range from health, fashion and work to widowhood, grief, downsizing and finding love again, alongside public-facing episodes from her career and appearances. The book also takes up social attitudes toward older people, including discomfort around older couples showing affection and assumptions about appropriate behaviour in later life. Assisted dying is among its more serious topics, presented in connection with Leith’s stated belief in it. The result is a wide-ranging account of ageing that places everyday choices and public taboos side by side.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about ageing and later life.
  • Readers seeking personal reflections on work, relationships, health and changing circumstances in older age.
  • Readers interested in discussion of ageing-related taboos, grief and assisted dying.

Themes

Ageing and visibilityLove, widowhood and griefWork and retirementHealth, appearance and lifestyleAssisted dying

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Book overview

So much more than a memoir, this a spirited canter through Prue's musings on the triumphs, trials and tribulations of ageing well. Including health, beauty, fashion, business, work, widowhood and finding love again, decorating, downsizing, and assisted dying.

From Bake Off presenter, Prue Leith, comes a truthful, inspiring and funny short book - part memoir and part reflection, on time running out and accepting the inevitable end while still having fun and being visible.

Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, and always entertaining, with themes reflective of her one woman show - geriatric love, the catwalk appearances, being Pegasus on the Masked Singer, her new ITV show My Cotswold Kitchen, and a focus on the trials and taboos of age: why are we embarrassed by oldies kissing; what is acceptable behavior when you're old?, to work or to retire, staying healthy and active, her passionate belief in Assisted Dying, and dealing with grief.
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