Midlife Cabernet: Life, Love & Laughter After Fifty

Ambrose faces the frights, frustrations, and fancies of aging in this refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny survival guide for middle-aged women. Infusing her prose with sarcastic dark humor, the author offers homespun recommendations on dating and sex, raising adult children, and the physical effects of aging%E2%80%94all with brazen cheer. From stressful divorces and facing Christmas alone to disastrous sexual misadventures nothing is sacred or off limits. The author's prose is lively and entertaining, with statements like "one of the many advantages of living in the last third of life is that I don't accept crap from anyone." Sure to be irritated and edified, women over 40 will find a lot to like here.