A Queen of Advice from Cosmopolitan UK and U.S. shares all she's learned in decades of answering women's toughest questions As a professional advice columnist for the last 40 years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American society. In these memoirs, she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades, as well as her own hectic and often difficult life as a single mother from America living in London. Warm, funny, and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, this book is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern and confuse us the most—from mother-daughter relationships through to eating disorders, office politics, and those perennial areas of interest: love and sex.

Product Description: In this frank, often funny, and always compelling disquisition on aging, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation—from a 90-year-old weekly columnist and a vicar still working in his mid-70s to The Good Granny Guide's Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and 'London’s Rudest Landlord' Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach and Horses...read more

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