Reinvented Lives

Oct 2, 2024 6:32 PM

Author:Charles Handy,Elizabeth Handy

Reinvented Lives

Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy. This generation of women is entering the sixties more healthy, more educated and more energetic than most of their mothers. The subjects in this book provide the models for what has become, for the first time, a new age for many women. Released from most of the cares and responsibilities that accompany midlife for women, they are free to reinvent themselves, to give more time to their career or calling, or to luxuriate in the serenity and friendships that few had time for in the past. Some enter new relationships, some start new careers or go back to study, some find that their work is only now reaching its peak. Many have survived traumas and tragedies, but 'the past is just the prologue' as one of them explains.

Reviews

Magnificent... Blood, Bones & Butter is the work of an uncompromising chef and a prodigiously talented writer. I am choked with envy

—— Anthony Bourdain

My favourite book of the past few years, a thrilling and visceral personal memoir

—— Financial Times

A rhapsodic, profane, wonderful, imperfect memoir... every bit as rich and satisfying as the marrow bones the author roasts at Prune

—— Wall Street Journal

The food memoir of the year

—— Guardian

Evocative... Dazzling... Beautifully written

—— New York Times

Gabrielle Hamilton has changed the potential and raised the bar for all books about eating and cooking. Her nearly rabid love for all real food experience and her completely vulnerable, unprotected yet pure point of view unveils itself in both truth and inspiration. I will read this book to my children and then burn all the books I have written for pretending to be anything even close to this. After that I will apply for the dishwasher job at Prune to learn from my new queen

—— Mario Batali

Heartbreakingly honest

—— heat

There are no heroes here - just real people whose bravely told stories could save lives

—— Betsy Lerner, author of Food and Loathing

Chilling

—— 4 Stars , Hot Stars

Gripping

—— Star

Powerful

—— The Sun

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