You Know You Are Middle Aged When...: Cougars, Corvettes, Chemical Peels, and Other Ways to Survive Your Midlife Crisi

by Alison Rattle

Are you starting to feel out of touch with the latest music? Does the claim that a product is "anti-aging" sound appealing? Is the idea of a night out exhausting-from the thought of finding a way home to dealing with the three-day hangovers that follow? If this sounds like you, the truth of the matter is you might be middle-aged. Cope with your mid-life crisis the fun way by delving into entertaining sections



The perfect gift for anyone struggling through their middle ages, including the friend who still thinks the 20-something at the next table is staring at them. If you're finding that youth is no longer on your side, it might be time to curl up with this hilarious collection of stories, quotes and quips.

Genres: Humor

176 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 2010

About the author

Alison Rattle grew up in Liverpool, and now lives in a medieval house in Somerset with her three teenage children, her partner - a carpenter - an extremely naughty Jack Russell and a ghost cat. She has co-authored a number of non-fiction titles on subjects as diverse as growing old, mad monarchs, how to boil a flamingo, the history of America and the biography of a nineteenth-century baby killer. She has worked as a fashion designer, a production controller, a painter and decorator, a barmaid, and now owns and runs a vintage tea room.

Reviews

[Aïsha Atherly · Rating 1 out of 5]

What made this author think that it was a good idea to try to dictate to women what they should/should not wear after a certain age?

Anyway Alison, if you ever read this I'm so sorry that you were not blessed with any talents or gifts for writing. I hope you've found your 'thing' by now. Also, your hair cut is ugly.

[Helen · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a pile of crap! These ‘authors’ have basically copy and pasted every joke, cliche and story about being middle aged from the internet, claimed they wrote a book and had the audacity to charge £10 for it. There’s no point reading past the first page, no idea how they dragged it out for 160 pages

[Jitendra Mulay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice concept and a lot expected to read about it. The start is good and one can see themselves in mirror, however later it gets with other stuff which feels not much relevant to the original subject of discussion. Could have been better.

[Gail Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny!!!

[Hayley Edwards · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the things in this book made me smile but it wasn't a book I'd buy for myself someone bought it for me thought it would give me a good laugh, it didn't.

[Stuart · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rubbish. A complete waste of money. There was barely one original thought in this book. All it appeared to be was a collection of other people's work and jokes that somehow related to middle-age. It was obviously put together by two 30-something spinsters that couldn't keep a boyfriend, as much of the content appeared intended for that demographic.

Don't bother.

[Jill · Rating 2 out of 5]

though i fall into their age range of over 30, this book contained little to which I could relate...and I also didn't think it was that funny.

[Andrea · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lame. What a waste of reading time.

[Saskia · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5