The Change

'A perfect contradiction, existing in the shades of grey that real life is so often painted in . . . A story that's as furious as it is tender' Emily Henry A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You ll love it Marian Keyes STUNNING! Feminist writing at its absolute best. 10 stars Reader review, ?????* * *Nessa: The SeekerJo: The ProtectorHarriett: The PunisherWith newfound powers the time has come to take matters into their own hands Widowed Nessa lives alone in her house near the ocean. In the quiet hours, she hears voices belonging to the dead who will only speak to her.On the cusp of fifty Harriett s marriage and career imploded, but her life is far from over in fact, she s undergone a stunning metamorphosis.Jo spent years at war with her body. The rage that arrived with menopause felt like the last straw until she discovers she s able to channel it.Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio discover the abandoned body of a teenage girl. The police have written off the victim. But the women have not. Their own investigations lead to more bodies, and a world of wealth where the rules don t apply and the realisation that laws are designed to protect villains, not the vulnerable.Now three women will avenge the innocent and punish the guilty. IT S TIME.* * *Praise for Kirsten Miller A perfect contradiction, existing in the shades of grey that real life is so often painted in A story that s as furious as it is tender Emily Henry A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You ll love it Marian Keyes A proper smash-the-patriarchy read with tension and a c ompelling plot to boot Loved it Harriet Tyce A propulsive plot and characters that roar off the page, this is a novel that s unafraid to take on societal misogyny while being satirical and even funny at the same time Guardian An addictive, fast-paced crime novel like nothing you ve ever read before Red magazine

'A perfect contradiction, existing in the shades of grey that real life is so often painted in . . . A story that's as furious as it is tender' Emily Henry A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You ll love it Marian Keyes STUNNING! Feminist writing at its absolute best. 10 stars Reader review, ?????* * *Nessa: The SeekerJo: The ProtectorHarriett: The PunisherWith newfound powers the time has come to take matters into their own hands Widowed Nessa lives alone in her house near the ocean. In the quiet hours, she hears voices belonging to the dead who will only speak to her.On the cusp of fifty Harriett s marriage and career imploded, but her life is far from over in fact, she s undergone a stunning metamorphosis.Jo spent years at war with her body. The rage that arrived with menopause felt like the last straw until she discovers she s able to channel it.Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio discover the abandoned body of a teenage girl. The police have written off the victim. But the women have not. Their own investigations lead to more bodies, and a world of wealth where the rules don t apply and the realisation that laws are designed to protect villains, not the vulnerable.Now three women will avenge the innocent and punish the guilty. IT S TIME.* * *Praise for Kirsten Miller A perfect contradiction, existing in the shades of grey that real life is so often painted in A story that s as furious as it is tender Emily Henry A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You ll love it Marian Keyes A proper smash-the-patriarchy read with tension and a c ompelling plot to boot Loved it Harriet Tyce A propulsive plot and characters that roar off the page, this is a novel that s unafraid to take on societal misogyny while being satirical and even funny at the same time Guardian An addictive, fast-paced crime novel like nothing you ve ever read before Red magazine

'A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book' New York Times 'Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going' Washington Post The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated When The Change was published in 1991, ‘menopause’ was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-ageing preparations, none of which worked. Big pharma was pushing replacement hormones, but doctors were dragging their feet. Some women told horror stories of their experiences with replacement hormones; others called them lifesavers. Nobody knew why some women went through this change of life without difficulty. What was working for them, when other women were tormented almost to madness? It seemed that we were close to an answer to that question, but that was before large-scale studies revealed that the protective effects of hormone replacement had been vastly exaggerated; given the perceived increase in the risk of life-threatening disease, the studies had to be called off. Now more than ever, amid the clamour of online chatrooms and promotions for a vast array of alternative therapies, the individual woman has to manage her passage through menopause for herself. In The Change , Germaine Greer provides a common-sense guide to a very interesting and important stage of women’s lives.

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