Ask the Author: Christine Webber
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Christine Webber
I am sticking with mid-life people and their problems with my next novel, which is called 'It's Who We Are'. It will come out in January. It's about all the changes that happen to us mid-life set against the very real turbulence in the world at the present time. Most of us expected to find our mid to later life quite settled and predictable. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Christine Webber
I was invited on to BBC Breakfast one morning back in about 2010 to talk about a new acronym that the Dept for Work and Pensions had devised. It was SWOFTY - which, I learned, stood for Single Women Over Fifty. The Dept was worried that this group were all out having a wonderful time and not saving for the future! This got me thinking about how different people in mid-life are today compared with a couple of generations ago. At the time I had just written a non-fiction book called 'Too Young to Get Old' (Piatkus) for mid-life women - all about how to age very differently from how our parents did. So I was thinking of writing more for this age group - and decided I'd sooner write a novel than more non-fiction. The Swofty concept kept bubbling into my mind, and that's how 'Who'd Have Thought It? came to be started.
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