I'M ABSOLUTELY FINE! THE MANUAL FOR IMPERFECT WOMEN offers a wry, heartfelt, edgy look at what it is to be a grown-up woman: with all the anxiety and potential woven through everyday life. Chapters cover topics such as relationships ('It's Not Me, It's You'), sex ('What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'), joy ('In My Defence, I was Left Unsupervised'), stuff ('If It Ain't Broke...But it Probably Is)'), friendship ('Wishbone, Backbone, Funnybone') and self-image ('Does This Straitjacket Make Me Look Fat?'). Topics are explored through essays, listicles ('Five Guys You Probably Slept With', 'Snaccidents' and 'Secrets of the Midult Universe') and mantras ('Idiots Happen', 'It takes a lot of therapy to be this shallow' and 'Perfection? You Can Keep It.'). After reading this book, Midults will no longer feel like civilization's ignored middle child, but happier, stronger and better prepared. Remember: Life is tough. So are you.

Author Biography

Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan founded The Midult in 2016. They are journalists, worriers and incredibly good friends. Annabel has written for everybody from The Times to Vogue, while Emilie has been Features Editor of the Evening Standard and Deputy Editor of Tatler. Together they write a Midult column in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine and Annabel has a column in the Evening Standard's ES Magazine. Emilie is sunshine, Annabel is brimstone and together they wrote this book, lying on the floor a lot and stroking their beards.