Showing results for "Midlife" in Literary Fiction

Ein denkwürdiger Moment auf seinem Rasentraktor macht Tillmann klar, dass er in einer ausgewachsenen Midlife-Crisis steckt. Ja, er hat eine fantastische Frau und großartige Kinder, aber wann genau sind seine ambitionierten Jugendträume bloß zu diesem Spießerleben mit Fertighaus und Gartenteich mutiert? Tillmann beschließt, sein altes Draufgänger-Ich aus dem sozialen Tiefschlaf zu holen und noch mal so richtig die Sau rauszulassen.

'Jenny Knight's writing is brilliant – telling it like it is, full of warmth and humour' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Powerful … A moving story of female desire, ambition and renewal' Kit de Waal ***** A powerful and moving debut novel about coming of age again post-marriage and post-menopause...

Fifty-year-old Agatha Doyle loves her empty nest – until hot flushes, a pair of killer heels and an overbearing man who won’t stop talking conspire to change her life. In one moment of madness, she unwittingly becomes a heroine to women everywhere. But can she become the heroine of her own life? Sometimes you just have to wing it.

Scobie Donoghue was once the king of the weekend. His twenties were spent working hard and playing harder. A lovable rogue, the lads wanted to be him and the girls wanted to be with him. But now, about to turn forty and returning to his small midlands hometown, Scobie is back in his childhood bed, single, burnt out and depressed. The life he thought he had left behind has moved on—but has he?

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress comes a hilarious, timely, and big-hearted novel about rebuilding life in the face of disaster. Forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski is an ex-punk rocker, a recovering alcoholic, and the mother of two...