Quilt on Fire

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A wildly entertaining - and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY'A must-read for every woman, especially those battling through those turbulent midlife years. Christie Watson is fierce, funny and endearingly frank in her fantastic new memoir' JACQUELINE WILSON'Give Quilt on Fire to your daughter, mother, sister, friends. A howlingly good midlife battle cry' JESS KIDD________There is something raw in the fault lines, something wilder and more mysterious. There is beauty in the falling apart, a less polished, more honest version of expression.In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced she'd found her soulmate, in a glowing flash of light that turned out to be a tealight setting her quilt on fire. Twenty years later, her bed is burning once again... as she wakes in a perimenopausal sweat, night after night.This is the story of her journey through midlife: of the joy of letting go and the pain of the morning after, of the unstoppable power of female friendship and the struggle to raise teenagers as a single parent. It lays bare the exhilaration, agony, wonder and fears of being a middle-aged woman with a wild heart, a changing body and a new set of challenges. And as her world takes on a different shape, there's something else she starts to feel: the hot flush of possibility.'Raw and real and laugh-out-loud funny' KAREN ANGELICO'Unsettling and life-affirming, funny and sad, unflinchingly honest and incredibly moving' JOHN SUTHERLAND