Kate Muir & Charlotte Mendelson
How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis
Join bestselling author and women’s health campaigner Kate Muir and award-winning novelist and and gardening columnist Charlotte Mendelson for a lively conversation about navigating and celebrating midlife.
Kate Muir is renowned for her groundbreaking work on menopause, including two award-winning Channel 4 documentaries with Davina McCall. Her latest book, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, reframes the “second half” of life as a time of transformation, offering reassurance, expertise, and practical guidance to help women thrive.
Charlotte Mendelson’s acclaimed novels, including The Exhibitionist (2022) and Wife (2024), explore midlife as a moment of truth. Her characters wrestle with years of self-denial and the urgent question of identity, dramatising the tension between duty and self-fulfilment in stories that are both painfully funny and deeply resonant.
Age recommendation 14+
Quotes about Kate Muir
‘The most comprehensive and accessible book on midlife you’ll ever read.’ JENNIFER COX on How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, author of Women Are Angry
‘Women have got far more reason than men to have a midlife crisis: our brains completely rewire in perimenopause and menopause as hormones change.’ MUMSNET
Quotes about Charlotte Mendelson
‘A devastating, blackly comic portrait of middle-class dysfunction and a family with a monster at its centre.’ SARAH MOSS, THE GUARDIAN on The Exhibitionist
‘If vivid, drily hilarious tales about messy families stuffed with passive aggression and seething resentment are your thing, you will gleefully hoover up Charlotte Mendelson’s riotous, prize-winning novels.’ THE SPECTATOR on The Exhibitionist
‘A clever, lacerating account of coercive control … finely executed.’ Financial Times on Wife
| Date | Doors open | Start time | End time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 2026 | 14:30 | 15:00 | 16:00 |
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