Kate Muir Knihy

An investigation into the menopause and how women are being let down by the health community.

The smart guide every midlife woman needs to read ... A woman's 'second half' can be a tricky time to navigate - but, equipped with the right knowledge, it can be a time for positive and significant change. Women's health campaigner and documentary maker Kate Muir is here to offer advice, reassurance, expertise and humour to help you thrive during your midlife years. In this essential book, she will show you how to: have better sex (after decades of trying) take advantage of brain rewiring in menopause get elegantly and economically divorced happily leave your job avoid the midlife muffin top and love your microbiome Blending personal narrative with expert voices and the experiences of other women, Kate gives us the tools to embrace this new phase of our lives with confidence and optimism.

A feminist call to arms meets practical guide to understanding the pill and other contraception.

Schon 187 Tage ohne Sex - das Leben meint es wirklich nicht gut mit Albertine. Ihr Durchbruch als Performance-Künstlerin und Malerin lässt auf sich warten, der Mann fürs Leben oder auch nur für eine Nacht ebenfalls. Dafür hat Albertine Besuch aus dem Jenseits: Agnes, der Geist ihrer Urahnin, mischt sich plötzlich ungefragt in alles ein. Ganz besonders in Albertines Suche nach Mr. Perfect - als wäre diese im Großstadtdschungel von New York nicht sowieso schon schwer genug!

Modern, passionate and crazy New York is contrasted with the austerity of Scotland and the plight of the suffragettes earlier this century in this, Kate Muir's debut novel.

London, 2000 Fergus MacFarlane is a celebrated and celebrity Brit Art photographer partying in the heat of Noughties London. One night he returns to his beautiful house and his beautiful wife to discover ugly cracks in his life: he's falling apart, sleeping around and selling out. His past and his present are catching up with him. Who is he really? How did he get here? Scotland, 1978 Fergus is eight when his fisherman father drowns off the West Coast of Scotland. He is left in a damp tenement with his mother - and her resentment. The worst of the Seventies has hit the port of Burnoch: Leo Sayer, shagpile carpet, and Irn Bru for breakfast. In the wild landscape, Fergus searches for horizons beyond the narrow ones of the town and a way out. Follow Fergus from scabby-kneed schoolboy to ambitious artist, from a squat to a mansion, from rent boys to an aristocratic marriage, from Hebridean islands to Hoxton galleries, from Presbyterianism to hedonism. It's a journey through tragedy and comedy, haggis and sushi. Why did Fergus run from his past? And how does he get back? Kate Muir's unputdownable new novel is for everyone who ever lost their roots, and set out to find them again.

Enter the world of Olivier and Madison Malin, glittering inhabitants of Paris's exclusive Left Bank. The Malins' life together with their daughter is the stuff of dreams - and carefully-selected celebrity magazines. Madison is a film star: her beauty, talent and perfect accent hiding her Texan roots, and the fact she's just turned forty. Her husband, Olivier, is the darling of the sophisticated Left Bank: philosopher and media personality, he craves adoration (and is a little too willing to return it). Everything seems perfect - if a touch pretentious - until the moment new English nanny, Anna, appears at the doors of their Rue du Bac apartment. Anna unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will endanger their charmed lives - in ways no-one could have foreseen...