Author Jane Green on divorce, reinvention, living alone, dating men and women & the hallucination that brought her calm.
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This candid interview is a great listen for anyone feeling lonely or unsure of where their life is heading or wants to learn to love & value themself. The best-selling Gen X author tells Lorraine & Trish about her remarkable midlife awakening, detailed in her new memoir, Rewilding: Freedom, Fearlessness & Finding Our Way Home. In a powerful conversation she explains the decision to leave her husband, her New York home & the life she’d built over 25 years to move to Marrakech after her career hit a downward spiral. She reveals how she loves living alone & starting again financially. After asking herself the question ‘who would I be if I didn’t care what anyone else thought?’ Jane goes on a ‘rewilding’ journey. Along the way she rediscovers sex & dating, learns to live alone without being lonely & becomes her true authentic self.
Plus: Will Lorraine’s pelvic floor hold up with her new bouncy exercise regime!!
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| 0:00.0 | Morning everybody. We've got quite a show for you today. We're quite excited. Our guest is an author |
| 0:15.8 | who's going to be something of a nostalgia noodle for all of you listening. She has got something of a huge midlife |
| 0:22.6 | story to tell. There's love, there's divorce, there's friendship, there's sex, rebirth and |
| 0:28.2 | magic mushrooms, which is just a Sunday night in Trish's house, isn't it? |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah, as long as I get it all done by about 9pm and I'm in my flannel pyjamas for bed. Yeah, I can tick all of those off. Yeah, then you're ready for the mushrooms. Well, first of all, Trish, I have got news for you on Project Gladiator. My ongoing campaign to become as fit as a TV Gladiator and never die, because obviously I'm always worried about death. But I've got to let you know first and I think our listeners will appreciate this. |
| 0:57.4 | We had an email which means that we have finally become, taken a while, |
| 1:03.8 | but we finally become bin influencers. |
| 1:08.4 | Once upon a time, we were the original, the O.G. Miranda Priestley's in our MAG editing days. |
| 1:15.8 | And now we are the people that people email about bin etiquette. |
| 1:22.2 | Because we talk about the bins so much in the show. How has it come to this, Trish? |
| 1:26.6 | We blame our husbands, but I, |
| 1:28.8 | yeah, I did see that email because it was quite daft, wasn't it? It was called, it was actually |
| 1:33.3 | entitled Bin Etiquette from a law firm. What? Weird. Obviously looking for some press. |
| 1:39.2 | Somebody had actually taken the time to bother sending out a press release with the legalities |
| 1:43.8 | of chatting to your |
| 1:44.6 | neighbours who with poor bin etiquette so if your neighbours are winding you up this is what you need |
| 1:49.5 | I can't even bore you with it but it's supposed to say it made us laugh because we just thought |
| 1:55.7 | you know is this is this is what it's come to um but anyway i think our husbands would be dealing with any |
| 2:01.7 | bin etiquette wouldn't they rather than rather than us um anyway i want to hear more about |
| 2:06.5 | project gladiator because we did have to you you're having to up your game with some of the |
| 2:11.1 | guests that we've had on the show on you with your gladiator and yes just more showing off on my part |
| 2:17.9 | so um i have got something to tell you and it's a bit of a nostalgia noodle like our guest, something I've done. |
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