Self Contained Av Emma John

<B><I>Everything I Know About Love</I> for the over 40s</B><BR/><BR/><I>There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too. </I><BR/><BR/>Emma John is in her 40s; she is neither married, nor partnered, with child or planning to be.<BR/><BR/>In her hilarious and unflinching memoir, <I><B>Self-Contained</B></I>, she asks why the world only views a woman as complete when she is no longer a single figure and addresses what it means to be alone when everyone else isn't.<BR/><BR/>In her book, she captures what it is to be single in your forties, from sharing a twin room with someone you've never met on a group holiday (because the couples have all the doubles with ensuite) to coming to the realisation that maybe your singleness isn't a temporary arrangement, that maybe you aren't pre-married at all, and in fact you are self-contained.<BR