Out of Time

From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the mid-life crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour.

About the author

Miranda Sawyer is an English journalist and broadcaster. Besides her features and radio criticism for the ‘Observer’, her writing has appeared in ‘GQ’, ‘Vogue’ and the ‘Guardian’. She is a regular arts critic in print, on television and on radio.

Report

'A straight-talking handbook for those of us who believe we're still at our peak in middle age but need a few honest signposts' Viv Albertine
'I spent a lot of time nodding along in agreement to this book as if it was my favourite record*' Jeremy Deller
*'Hallelujah' by Happy Mondays (Weatherall & Oakenfold remix)
'Sawyer is at her best articulating with honesty the angst many of this generation feel about getting older... the Morrissey of her journalistic generation' Sunday Times
Praise for 'Park and Ride':
'A great success ... Such annihilation has been performed before. John Osborne did it. Sid Vicious was there. But this is prime stuff' Independent On Sunday
'Like Victoria Wood she has a talent for illuminating the absurdities of how ordinary people live their ordinary lives' Observer
'Miranda Sawyer's suburban memoir 'Park and Ride' was as excellent as we expect' Julie Burchill, Guardian (Books of the Year)

Product details

• Authors: Miranda Sawyer, Sawyer Miranda
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780007521074
• ISBN: 978-0-00-752107-4
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; HUMOR / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Humour, Age groups: adults