Hello and welcome to Midpoint. The podcast which on hearing that the Economic and

Social Research Council found that middle-aged is anything between the age of 37

and 58 asked the question,

well what does that mean?

Are we supposed to have it all sorted by now?

Is this our golden age?

Or is it just another part of the journey?

My guest today has written about every age of womanhood from her

best-selling 2012 Cracker how to be a woman to how to build a girl and of course

her most recent book which has just hit the shops more than a woman. At 45 years old she's experiencing

the midlife herself in all its glory and as she always does she's documented it in her fast-paced

comedic, intensely personal and heartwarming style.

She's an award-winning columnist for The Times.

She's produced a TV series Raised by Wolves, loosely based on her younger life.

And she's been married for 25 years to Pete and is a mother more

importantly than anything to two teenage daughters. She's also a wannabe

hag. She is Kat Cally Moran. This episode is brought to you by Solgar who've been making carefully crafted vitamins and nutritional supplements since 1947.

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