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...columnist for the Sunday Times in London, Shane Watson has spent countless hours detailing her experiences as a woman in this era of Botox, butt lifts and ill-advised miniskirts. In her new book, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved, she traces her transition from a happy, middle-aged single woman to a happily married one. Watson spoke to TIME from her home in London.(See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...title of your book is attention-grabbing, but the majority of what you write is more about a single woman's relationships with herself, her friends and her family rather than dating or finding a man. Why's that? It was meant to be a catchy hook. I wanted to write something for women in the late-30-something or 40-something category. I was single, and it kind of alters your relationships with other women and with your family. I wanted to shine a little light on that in a humorous way without preaching and just sort...
...Susan Boyle saga is probably a prime example of what you discuss in your book about how people perceive whether a woman looks good for her age. Everyone was so hysterical about whether she should be made over. The fact is that this is a woman who is like a lot of others out there, but because she was on TV, she suddenly looked like a freak. She is what people look like. (Watch TIME's video "Susan Boyle...
...example you use in the book is singer Kylie Minogue, a famous, single, middle-aged woman who gets hounded by the media despite being a cancer survivor and top-selling artist. The American version of Minogue might be Jennifer Aniston. There is always something about them and their relationships in the news. What is your take on that? It's incredibly tough being single past a certain age because there's no doubt that we live in a culture where people still think you're not quite a whole woman if you haven't got a man to validate your...
...doener RT @StopAhmadi NEWS: Woman CONFIRMED shots were fired in Tehran, 5 ppl got shot, 4 ppl died #IranElection...