Henry Carter Hull

Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.

The author examines what it is to be fifty-years-old in the early twenty-first century, describing changes in roles as a mother and as a wife, changes in her body, changes in her self-perception, and more.

A collection of essays in which Nora Ephron shares her thoughts on various points in her life, including her thoughts on journalism, relationships with men, the unanticipated aspects of gaining a long-awaited inheritance, and other topics.

Stephanie Dolgoff offers a humorous look at what it is like to transform into what she calls a "Formerly"--someone who is out of her carefree twenties but not quite settled into middle age.

Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and wiser, and becoming more certain of who you are and where you want to be.

Professional home stager Sandy Sullivan is ready to simplify her life and put her family's Boston home on the market, but her husband and grown son's refusal to help has Sandy ready to throw in the towel, so when she accepts a job staging a hotel in Atlanta, she decides to leave town and let the men handle selling the house while she stays with her daughter in Atlanta, but unexpected surprises change Sandy's plans and have her reexamining her entire...

"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.