Wise Women

<p><H3><b>An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of <i>Hagitude</i></b></H3><br><b><br>'An extra­ordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' </b><i>TLS</i><br><br><b>'Features an exuberant cast ... </b><b>The collection is precious ... Genius' </b><i>IRISH TIMES</i><br><br><b>'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends</b>' SARA SHERIDAN, author of <i>The Fair Botanists</i><br><br>From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. <br><br>But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being - and almost always have the last laugh.<br><br>These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.<br><br><b>'Read it, absorb it, treasure it!' </b>SHAHRUKH HUSAIN, author of <i>The Virago Book of Witches</i><br><br><b>'Wonderful, both comforting and inspiring' </b>VICTORIA SMITH, author of <i>Hags</i><br><br><b>'The book I've been longing for' </b>JILL DAWSON, author of <i>The Bewitching</i><br><br><b>'I adored <i>Wise Women </i>- this is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to reframing the narrative in our culture about the role of older females' </b>ELEANOR MILLS, author of <i>Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife </i><br><br><b>'Reading it quenched a thirst I didn't know I had. Oh for a world where stories of the power and joy of women's elder years are celebrated everywhere'</b> DOREEN CUNNINGHAM, author of <i>Soundings</i><br><br><b>'Revisits our old stories, making them thrilling for us now' </b>STELLA DUFFY OBE</p>