Those who can, teach KATE HUBBARD Re-educated: How I Changed My Job, My Home, My Husband and My Hair
Ebury Press £16.99
The midlife crisis can take many forms, but it commonly begins with a feeling of ‘Is this it?’
And, if it is, is it enough? Do you just trundle along on the same path for another 30 years? Or could you throw it all in? Become an osteopath? Ditch the spouse? Move to the Hebrides?
Few act on such fantasies. Lucy Kellaway is the exception. Kellaway, aged 57, writing ‘sarky columns’ and amusing interviews. In the space of two years, she ‘tore it all down’. Circumstances played their part – her marriage collapsed, her children grew up, her parents died and her job no longer provided much satisfaction or excitement. What galvanised her, however, was moving house.
