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    LF inspiring fiction or nonfiction books about people restarting lives in mid 30/40/ 50s or beyond? Dealing with failures and setbacks or lack of motivation

    Bonus if women centric. Like women who have to restart after raising children etc.

    by Guilty_Thepla

    8 Comments

    1. PeacockFascinator on

      Where’d You Go Bernadette? By Maria Semple

      Britt Marie was Here by Frederick Bachman

      Eleanor Oliphant is completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

    2. monopolyqueen on

      Well you know, the stormlight archive has characters which grow through mental health issues with some characters being middle aged

    3. wtfisanematode on

      The many lives of mama love is AMAZING. It’s a memoir that literally feels like reading fiction. Soccer mom turned heroine addict turned ghostwriter for the Dalai Lama

    4. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan

      The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1st in a series) by Dorothy Gilman

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