It's time to rage against the menopause with Patrina Jones. My next guest is someone I've long admired and grew up reading in Dolly magazine and Cleo ignited my passion for journalism in fact.

Kaz Cook is an Aussie author, cartoonist and broadcaster. Chances are if you're a parent like me and a gazillion others, you had a copy of Up the Duff on your bedside table.

The practical guide to pregnancy and childbirth was a staple for any baby shower hamper.

Well, she's lent her talents to menopause, penning it's the menopause,

a reassuring practical go-to from a trusted source after talking to literally thousands of women.

I love that, full women by women. It's full of

her laugh out loud signature style and felt like a gift from the gods when it landed on my desk

one morning after the show. Welcome and thank you. I've got to say this book, it's almost like

a gift from the heavens. I'm not kidding because I came off the show,

off the Christian O'Connell show one morning a few weeks back, and your book, your publicist,

had sent me this amazing new book, it's the menopause, and it was sitting on my desk,

and it was almost like a gift from the gods, like they were listening.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

Thank you so much.

Well, I wish I'd had it when I was going through menopause.

I'm just through.

And, yeah, it's just with that, my background as a journalist,

I thought, you know, this is going to be a big job, but I didn't realize it was going to take me three and a half years of my life, a million, not a million, but,

you know, nearly 9,000 women filling in the survey and telling me all their secrets and

wishes and worries and then all the medical experts.

So it's been huge and it's, for me too, it's lovely to see it all in one package now and ready to go.

Oh, no, congratulations.

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