Quilt on Fire: Friendship, Dating, Sex and Love

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I loved it... Hilarious and necessary. Should be required reading for anyone over forty! Francesca Segal Christie Watson is fierce, funny and endearingly frank in her fantastic new memoir Jacqueline Wilson spots full! We have room for 100 students. Join us Dec. 6th at 5pm PST for a Complimentary Mystery Holiday Workshop on MadeTV! It's a fun little project! Get ready for a festive adventure with the Quilter on Fire (a.k.a Brandy Maslowski) in this live holiday workshop! Join Brandy for a super fun mini mystery workshop where you’ll create a handy little gift that you can replicate for everyone on your Christmas list. Go to this link and scroll down to Dec. 6th. You'll find her! https://madetvnetwork.com/event-calendar/

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.

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An honest conversation about Christie Watson's journey through midlife and how to navigate new challenges of a changing body. A funny, frank and informative blend of personal writing, research and conversations with friends... [Watson's] descriptions of her failing body are vivid and unflinching... Passages are moving, humbling and written with beautiful detail Marianne Power, The Times A superb chronicle of midlife and the chaos of the perimenopause. Candid, humorous, insightful, deeply empathetic, inspiring and utterly necessary' i Paper

Hilarious, heartfelt and deeply moving, Christie has written a manifesto for all those of us who need to rediscover a life worth loving. A must-read Kate Bowler, author of EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON It gave me a huge dollop of much-needed perspective: my out-of-proportion worries seemed smaller than they had before. It gave me gratitude. Christie Watson is deliciously funny and candid about life as a perimenopausal woman in all its (sweaty) glory. A book to gift sisters, mothers and friends i, *Christmas Gift Guide 2022*Am I a terrible mother? Is the world ending? Did I turn the oven off? Did I pay the parking fine? Is my TV licence up to date? Will I go to prison? Who will take care of the children? A superb chronicle of midlife and the chaos of the perimenopause. Candid, humorous, insightful, deeply empathetic, inspiring and utterly necessary i Paper

A rallying cry for all those confused by their forties, Watson captures midlife with typical fearlessness, humour and style. Her writer's eye never looks away from the truth but seeks only to illuminate it. Every woman should read this book Sarah Langford, author of IN YOUR DEFENCERaw and real and laugh-out-loud funny. So timely... Quilt on Fire is like a supportive friend reaching out a hand, saying it will be okay Karen Angelico, author of EVERYTHING WE ARE Unsettling and life-affirming, funny and sad, unflinchingly honest and incredibly moving, this is a bloody marvellous book, fired with the realisation that love is the only thing that matters, in the end John Sutherland, author of BLUE At times Christie is so brutally honest that I felt quite uncomfortable reading it and couldn’t imagine that her children would be happy with the level of exposure which she revealed about her personal life.