'A wildly entertaining and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY 'A must-read for every woman'
JACQUELINE WILSON 'Laugh-out-loud haunting and beautifully crafted' DREDA SAY MITCHELL
________ 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... 'Wickedly funny deliciously candid and deeply moving' RACHEL CLARKE author of
Dear Life 'Give Quilt on Fire to your daughter mother sister friends. A howlingly good
midlife battle cry' JESS KIDD author of Things in Jars 'Brilliant... Like having an honest
conversation with a smart and funny friend' CATHY RENTZENBRINK author of Dear Reader
