Whether you want to send a message of thanks, love, consolation or apology, each of these cards contains a quote from one of a cast of famous women - Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Billie Holliday, Marilyn Monroe, Aphra Behin, Eleanor Roosevelt and Rebecca West.

A Queer Postcard Book: Fitting Words From Fitting Women

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Figes, Kate

Jaugey-Paget, Laurence

Antiques & Collectibles

New York University Press

Cosmopolitan" Book of Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Putnam~trade

Living with teenagers can be more stressful and emotional than anything parents have previously experienced. While there are dozens of books on development in young children, books on adolescent development and how to cope are almost non-existent. Kate Figes redresses the balance. Based on the advice of experts and interviews with parents and their children, this informed and practical analysis of the difficulties young people face growing up today will be essential reading for any parent.

The Terrible Teens : What Every Parent Needs to Know

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Penguin Group Canada

The birth of a child can provoke profound change in a woman-in her health, career, emotions, sex life, and relationships with friends, husband and family. Pregnancy and childbirth radically alter a women's body and metabolism--it's virtually impossible to "bounce back" quickly after childbirth. And many new moms discover that their sex lives and social lives--and with them, their self esteem--evaporate with a new baby, who they somehow seem to have been made wholly responsible for. Life After Birth doesn't cloak the truth in pastel colors, but explores the actual physical, psychological and emotional consequences of giving birth. Through extensive research and interviews, Figes tackles the tough realities of a new mother's life. What she discovered can help a new parent face some of the most difficult decisions she'll ever have to make.

Life After Birth: What Even Your Friends Won't Tell You About Motherhood

Zimmerman, Jean

Family Relationships

Golden Books Adult Publishing

This book was a huge bestseller in England. A heartfelt, down-to-earth look at the subject of childbirth and the adjustments physically, emotionally, and mentally--from choosing whether or not to work to dealing with perpetual exhaustion--that a woman e

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

St. Martin's: Griffin

What About Me? : The Diaries and E-mails of a Menopausal Mother and Her Teenage Daughter - When Teen Spirit and Midlife Crisis Collide

Women's Fiction

Pan Books

Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and her books - from new motherhood and adolescence to coupledom and infidelity - testify to this way of understanding herself and others: so naturally she turned to writing to explore the challenges of becoming sixty. And then - a horrible, and sudden diagnosis of breast cancer which had metastasised.
Instead of a gentle journey into middle age, Kate Figes began to write for her life. Now, clawing back confidence and control was not just the ordinary business of these years: it was the only way to try and survive great pain and emotional turmoil. 
 As her writing became an honest reflection on ageing, failing, regrets and the importance of childhood memory, friends, family and love she found a new determination to live to the full and about finding ways to face up to a shortened life expectancy with dignity.
Original, passionate, funny and moving, On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions will resonate with anyone dealing with the many griefs and freedoms of midlife. It is about living with a life-threatening disease but it is even more: an intelligent and passionate look at the way we can approach disappointment and trouble, friendship and love - every day.

On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Virago

Childhood: An Anthology

United States

J.M.Dent.

Sue is a 45-year-old GP, trying hard to marry work and family life while coping with the symptoms of her encroaching menopause. Her daughter Frankie, is just 14, beautiful and fun, but also at the age of swift change when teenagers can be at their least attractive, focused only on clothes, friends and boys. As Sue remembers all the agonies and ecstasies of her own teenage years , Frankie is both excited and aghast at hers - and can't decide whether her mother is to be her enemy or her best friend. And meanwhile, Sue's husband Matthew is exhibiting his own signs of mid-life crisis, buying a motor bike and flirting with Frankie's friends. Poor Frankie is stuck between a mother who tries desperately to bond with her in the changing rooms of Top Shop, and her father, who will insist of being his own version of a hip young man. And then Sue discovers she's pregnant...Told in the form of e mails from Sue to her sister, and the inimitable voice of Frankie in her diary, this is a lovely, wry novel which looks, with a refreshing twist, at life at its most challenging stages.

What About Me?

Pan/Macmillan

Why do women excel at bitching? And are there ways to do it well?In this unique and entertaining book, Kate Figes explores girltalk, the way bitching erupts amongst teenage girls, the tenacity of female stereotypes as well as essential guidance on being the best kind of bitch - strong and self-assured rather than the bitch that needs to put other women down to feel stronger. Packed with witty anecdote, etiquette, interviews and contributions from strong bitches such as Kathy Lette, Wendy Holden and Virginia Ironside this is a must read for all women on the most delicious, yet dangerous of verbal art forms.

The Big Fat Bitch Book

Virago UK

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