A bible for women in their forties and fifties by one of the best-known and most important voices on womens issues, whose message is: Think of your middle age as a chance for a new life, new confidence, new relationships, new career

Red Hot Mamas is the name for women who are discovering a new freedom and vitality at midlife.

Colette Dowling has investigated the lives of hundreds of women on the threshold of fifty to find out what their key dilemmas are and how they are dealing with them. Subjects include career change, sexual fulfilment, hormone replacement, money and the lack of it, new marriages, new relationships, family pressures, older parents and departing children.

An informative, intimate, inspiring book that will boost women to make the most of their options.