Backwards in High Heels - the impossible art of being a woman !

I love this book! It's one of those rare books that you want to earmark, scribble in and rush out and buy for all your girlfriends, its absolutely fabulous !

Its title comes from the old saying, that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels ! Its a book for everywoman struggling to make sense of the contradictory demands of living in the 21st century, and it tells it exactly how it is.

Within its pages is everything an intelligent woman might want to know about the nuances of every conceivable topic: big subjects, such as love, motherhood, feminism, politics, grief, ageing, as well as the “shallower” stuff. Except, in this book, as in most women's heads, and their lives, the demarcation between the deep and the shallow is so slight that its barely noticeable.

What the authors show is exactly what it is like being female in 2009. They have reinvented this genre and made it properly grown-up. They're playful, they swear and make jokes, but they mean every word and best of all, there isn't a patronising sentence in the book.

It assumes that its readers will be adult women who are au fait with life's complexities, know how to live and how to think, but would like a little reinforcement every now and then. Or a little shaking out of worn mental grooves.

Here's what the Times critic said about this book "intensely charming, like a clever, fascinating woman in an impeccable little black dress at a dinner party where every other woman is flashing her fake tits and batting her eyelashes. Backwards in High Heels tells it how it is, and you occasionally get the sense that the wise information contained within its pages has been hard-won"

We don't sell this book in Reba, so its not an advert, its more of an extollation, buy this for your mum, your sister, your best friend or your cousin - It really is all that it promises on the cover and she will thank you for it !