Forty Schmorty!....Life Keeps Happening – Conversations with Mattie and Eve
Mattie Mills and Eve Selis
The Blurb:
When a woman hits 40 our culture tells us that the little black cloud has appeared over our heads. It's time to slow down, fatten up and start walking funny. You know what we say? FORTY Schmorty! If 20 is sexy and fresh and talented, we're TWICE as 20! We're wiser, tougher, smarter, twice as skilled and twice as sexy. 40 over the hill? Not by a long shot. You better make it 80, 'cause we're the youngest of the Baby Boomers and we've got some serious bang left.
Let’s begin by saying that it is a lovely change to be reviewing a book, especially one related to music – my two loves converge!
Mattie Mills and Eve Selis are best friends. Both are well known on the San Diego music scene. Eve Selis, of course is well known to UK audiences for her frequent tours and Americana Roadhouse Rock. Most of those audiences, will probably also recall having heard Eve mention Mattie, during a show, most recently in relation to the pink streaks in her hair.
Both are married, both have been married before, both are mothers. Both have experienced loss and childbirth and both gave birth during their forties. Oh and both have been forty! This was the fact which triggered the idea to write this book. Literally, Mattie’s transcriptions of recorded conversations between the two women, it is truly unique.
During the course of the book, they touch on issues such as parents, children, friendships, faith, hopes and dreams and health, all with an incredible honesty, pathos and humour. Then, in the middle of the book project, Mattie discovered she had breast cancer and the two women very candidly share their thoughts and experiences during that journey. With equal honesty, meaningful quotes and personal insight, they share Eve’s journey to the birth of her son Henry (who many of her Uk fans met as a bump one tour!)
Living proof that life doesn’t stop at forty (a relief to me now embarking on my thirties, knowing forty schmorty is the next big one!) this is a book that should be read by all women and passed on to all their female friends (and maybe even the men in your life, to give them a glimpse into the female psyche...) The overwhelming feeling is that of having listened, not to singers but to friends, talking in your front room; friends who, by the end of the book, feel like your friends too.
‘Forty Schmorty!’ can be ordered direct at www.fortyschmorty.com, where, incidentally, in addition to their book, the duo blogs about their and offer merchandise including BBQ aprons, tote bags, and string thongs, all emblazoned with the FortySchmorty logo.
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