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A frank, funny and tender new book from Christie Watson about the search for love in mid-life
Quilt on Fire reframes the public discussion of love at mid-life with frankness and honesty, and celebrates the messy magic of being a single woman in your forties.
Christie has been searching for the meaning of love since her early twenties- when the bright glow of emotion she experienced with her boyfriend turned out to be her bedroom quilt that had caught fire. Now, at the age of 44, following what she thought was a spectacular breakdown (and that turned out to be the peri-menopause), she asks the question- what does love mean now? In this series of interconnected essays including Mind, Body, Soul, Sex and Dating, Christie takes us on a very funny, sometimes shocking and transportingly poignant journey- through peri-menopause, the search for love in midlife and why the older couples on First Dates always make us cry the most.
