Dora Heldt

Life After Forty Dora Heldt

When Christines husband of ten years dumps her over the phone while she watches a Hugh Grant film she is sent spinning on a cathartic, self-medicated journey to the land of self-acceptance and self-reliance. Surrounded by her sister and a strong support group of friends, Christine learns how to deal with the horrors of dating, finding new appliances, and the exhilarating feeling of shopping without consequence. An uproarious look at the suddenly single life of a divorcee, Dora Heldts first book to appear in English captures the zeitgeist of the new millennium with searing insight while never deigning to take itself too