Dimensions
142 x 136 x 15mm
Call the Midlife is a book about reaching 50, as Chris is about to. This should be the most exciting, least depressing time of one's life, yet we are brainwashed into fearing and loathing it, worrying about our being suffocated by the so-called 'midlife crisis'. But potentially it is the Golden Age in the whole of life, when we can still physically do much of whatever takes our fancy, and some things even better than before. Mentally, we are streets ahead of where we've ever been before, as we are in terms of influence too - having the sway, knowing more people and more about these people than at any time in the past. Even the odd tinge of wisdom begins to creep in.
But of course there is an issue. Even though we are fully aware of all the above, few of us have the first clue about how to go about the half-time team-talk from ourselves to ourselves. Call the Midlife is Chris's account of taking a year out, mentally and physically, before reaching the age of fifty, via three specific and consecutive journeys of self-discovery.
His wise and witty narrative enables Chris to ask all the questions he needs to position himself for a successful assault on the future. Health and wealth, our marriages and our mindset, our hopes and dream, sex and death.
We have fewer summers and Christmases left than those we've already seen, yet they can be fuller, and better and happier and more calorific than ever before. Chris knocks on the door of those who know best about the rest and relaxation and sleep and nutrition we need to fire on all cylinders with plenty of the right fuel in the tank for at least the next 25 years. After all, we are more bullet-proof than any generation that's come before us.
