I turned 40 and I currently feel lost in life .. my kid is grown up and I don’t have a partner. Can by one recommend books about women that changed their lives , preferably a biography?
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Julia Child "My Life in France" - she didn't get her start until 36
Barbara Kingsolver has some great novels that kind of fit this bill. Flight Behavior, Animal Dreams, Prodigal Summer, and Unsheltered come to mind
I just finished Poisonwood Bible and it immediately came to mind too.
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende, I always feel she's a great role model for growing older
Jenny Colgan’s books are fiction, but they are basically all on this theme and they’re very comforting and cozy.
Also Maeve Binchy’s Tara Road
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb.
tw: SA.
Great suggestion. I need to re-read this book.
i think of Delores Price every day….
Reading {{how to fall out of love madly}} loving it.
Toni Morrisons I think although they are pretty brutal depictions so be warned
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
A Woman of No importance by Sonia Purnell
Bella Figura by Kamin Mohammadi is non-fiction, but about a writer who leaves her life in London and slowly untangles and rebuilds herself during a year in Florence.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Came here to say this!!! So good.
No One Tells You This - Glynnis MacNicol. I listened to the audiobook a few years ago and she was going through something similar, though doesn't have kids. She experienced a huge burnout in her 40s after focusing on her career for so long and basically has to confront herself about the path she wants to choose in life.
Britt Mari was here by Frederick Bachmann.
Shadow life by Hiromi Goto (graphic novel)
Tara is Visible by Jane Tara
Kabul Beauty School was an unexpectedly lovely read!
Tracks by Robyn Davidson. A woman who learns how to train camels and walked across Australia in the late seventies.
O’ pioneers by Willa Cather - less about big change, more about holding everything together through inevitable change. Very slow paced thoughtful farm/prairie type book. Strong willed main woman character. Themes of family and timing and aging have stuck with me. Feels like living a life by the end of it.
Breaking Night by Liz Murray