ISBN: 0008325707 9780008325701

Category: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth

Page count: 252

‘A fun and uplifting memoir’ Cosmopolitan <p>Eleanor finds herself in her late 30s on a beach in India with three old ladies, trying to ‘find herself’ and ‘discover her family history’ like some sad middle-class crisis cliché. How did she get here?</p> <p>Truthfully, it could be for any one of the below reasons, if not all combined:</p> <ul> <li>Stepmum dying/Stepdad leaving – family falling apart, subsequent psychotic break; both parents now on third marriage</li> <li>Breaking up with K after 12 years – breaking up a whole life, a whole fucking universe – for reasons that may have been... misguided?</li> <li>New boyfriend moving in immediately, me insisting ‘it’s not a rebound!’ even after everyone has stopped listening, then breaking up with me</li> <li>Going into therapy after dating a threatening narcissist (the most pertinent point of which should be noted: I did not break up with him – he ghosted me)</li> </ul> <p>How to address this situation? Take a trip to India with your octogenarian nan and two great aunts of course. The perfect, if somewhat unusual, distraction from Eleanor’s ongoing crisis.</p> <p>But the trip offers so much more than Eleanor could ever have hoped for.</p> <p>Through the vivid and worldly older women in her life, she learns what it means to be staunch in the face of true adversity.</p>