How Hard Can It Be? By Allison Pearson

Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is fifty but not in a good way. Fifty in Kate’s mind equals invisibility and she’s caught between her traitorous hormones unknowable teenage children and ailing parents. She’s back at work after a break now that her husband Rich has dropped out of the rat race to master the art of mindfulness. But just as Kate is finding a few tricks to get by her old client and flame Jack reappears – complicated doesn’t even begin to cover it…