Women in midlife--and those exasperated by them--will laugh out loud, lost in a zany labyrinth of "what if" scenarios scripted by British comedy writer Marie Phillips. This inventive, compact book delivers 154 short, humorous set-ups that deal with no-holds-barred issues faced by women in midlife--especially those who long to extradite themselves from responsible, predictable living.
Presented with real-life crisis scenarios--comedic spins include general intolerance and burnout at work, marital and parental boredom, the perilous woes of home improvement and aging--readers select options, from the pragmatic to the daring, on how to handle each dilemma. Each choice then leads readers to other chapters mapping out how their decisions adventurously play out. Phillips's fun, clever antidotes offer a hilarious escape from the mundane. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines