Why midlife is the best time to start hitting the festival scene

If there are seven ages of man, there must be five ages of festival-going women. Jane Dyball, co-founder of Primadonna festival and stalwart of many other festival weekends, is here to talk you through them…

World Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg talks to Eleanor Mills about leaving Facebook

'I'm proud to be a Queenager' Sheryl tells Eleanor as she moves into her own new chapter in midlife.

My mum, the hopeless alcoholic

It's hard enough when your mother dies -- but what if you have always had to look after her? That is a whole other story.

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Hooray for unlikeable heroines

We should embrace female characters who are deeply flawed and not nice

'It's OK not to want to "go freelance" in midlife!'

Midlifer and coach Jenny Stallard on why wanting to stay in a ‘real job’ is perfectly acceptable.

My Midlife Hero’s Journey

Taiwo Dayo-Payne explains why midlife provides the opportunity for a classic interior journey.

Becoming a painter at 50

Jocasta Shakespeare loves that she found the artist inside in midlife, not earlier....

Minnie Driver talks midlife power, Hollywood & Managing Expectations

The Brit and Hollywood A-lister has published a memoir as a collection of essays. Here she talks midlife with Eleanor.

'I looked like a success but I was too numb to enjoy anything'

Helen Barnes on how she gave up traditional notions of success, concentrated on her family and discovered the joy of reinventing herself.

Studies show HRT can reduce women's risk of Alzheimer’s – could it have saved my mum?

Kate Muir discovered that menopause doesn't just affect our bodies, it affects our minds.

Older women and sports cars: True love?

In California, Chrissy Iley met the bevy of older women falling in love with sports cars.

How learning to surf at 50-plus changed me

Danielle Cass began surfing age 50 plus and turned from invisible to strong and beautiful

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