Esther Freud on older sisters, rebel mothers, grief & finding love after divorce in your 50s
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The best-selling author joins Lorraine & Trish to talk about her new novel, the long awaited sequel to Hideous Kinky, in which she picks up the story of a mother and her two daughters living an adventurous, unconventional life in the 80s. Esther also speaks with searing honesty about trying to keep her marriage together, the part peri-menopause played in the break up and the healing journey that led to new love and a new way of living. Plus: the unexpected way to keep your cool when summer is making you even more of a hot mess
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| 0:00.0 | Time for a commercial message from Zoe, the gut health scientists. |
| 0:04.1 | Now Lorraine, I feel it is time for listeners to get an update on a Project Gladiator, |
| 0:08.9 | which is your plan to get your fitness mojo back, which we've mentioned on a few of our earlier episodes. |
| 0:14.7 | Yes, well, it's all on track, Trish. There's lots of swimming, jogging, resistance training, |
| 0:18.7 | and I'm even improving my diet too. |
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| 1:47.0 | walking where you set the pace on a stay-and-walk holiday. Cast your mind back, Trish, to when I said |
| 1:52.7 | we should take a road trip together in a massive RV across America and you said absolutely not, |
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