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Fifty. And Nobody Warned You
The 50th Birthday Book for Women: a funny gift for turning 50, what fifty years actually cost, and room to write the rest
- Author
- Frankie Bexley
- Pages
- 129
- Paperback
- $6.99
- Ebook
- $2.99
- Published
- Not yet
Not out yet. This page exists so the work is visible while it is being made, which is more honest than a placeholder.
The same fifty years, read from the other side. Built from the identical fact register as the men's edition and written to a woman rather than about one, with the same last third left deliberately blank.
What is in it
- The years you could have been born, and what a house, a week of work and a pound actually cost in each of them.
- What has changed since, with the figures rather than the sighing.
- The honest bits about the age, written by somebody not pretending it is fine.
- Quizzes and things to argue about.
- Things you can now say and get away with.
- Around forty pages to fill in, which is the part that survives.
Formats and price
| Format | Price | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hardback | £18.99 | The gift version. Survives being kept. |
| Paperback | $6.99 | The one most people buy. |
| Ebook | $2.99 | Read it, but you cannot write in it. |
Where the material came from
The sourced tables in this book are published free on the site. If you only need a line for a card, take it from there and keep your money.
Part of Milestone Birthdays, an Home Truths series.
Frequently asked
- How is the women's edition different from the men's?
- It covers the same fifty years and reads them from a different position. The wage tables carry the pay gap of the period rather than a single average, and the section on what has changed since deals with the jobs, accounts and mortgages a woman born in the mid-1970s could not have had in her own name.
- Is every fact in it sourced?
- Yes, to the same sources as the rest of the series: the Nationwide house price index, the Bank of England historical dataset, the Office for National Statistics, and the Official Charts Company.
- Can you buy it for someone who hates fuss about birthdays?
- That is roughly who it is for. It is not a card with a cake on it. Most of the book is data and blank space, and the funny parts are observational rather than congratulatory.