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45 Things To Do Before You're 45: A Novel

By: Julia Tuffs
Narrated by: Isy Suttie
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"This isn’t how I pictured my life, you know? It was going to be fabulous. I was going to be fabulous.”

Meet Charlie; unfulfilled and perimenopausal, Charlie’s suburban life is a far cry from the Manhattan glamour she once dreamed of. Her husband is incapable of talking about anything other than his latest Ironman challenge, her sex life consists of fictional encounters with Hollywood stars, her kids need constant man-management, and to make things worse, her optician has just prescribed her reading glasses.

Oh, and she can’t stop crying at TV adverts…

In the hope of re-discovering her sense of self, Charlie begins writing a list: 45 things to do before she’s 45.

Eat an oyster

Take up parkour

Read War and Peace

Take ecstasy

Try stand-up comedy

Go to a sex club

Determined to complete them all, Charlie embarks on a chaotic odyssey through her own spectacular midlife crisis, challenging herself to become the person she wants to be. But what happens if we’re not that person? How do we learn to let them go? Or does something else have to give?

Uproariously funny and deeply human, 45 Things… is an all-too relatable story of what it means to be alive and how much living we all still have to do.

Narrated by the inimitable Isy Suttie (Peep Show), 45 Things... is the perfect listen for fans of Dolly Alderton, Caitlin Moran and Marian Keyes.

©2024 Julia Tuffs (P)2025 Audible Ltd.
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45 going on 15

This felt like Bridget Jones having a midlife crisis at 45. Or, given the focus on sex and bodily functions (especially periods), this felt like Samantha Jones from Sex in the City having a midlife crisis and letting her friends brainstorm a bucket list to ensure Charlie has really lived. Only, many of the items are juvenile; they’re the types of things that seem cool to a teenager (sex, drugs and low key criminal shenanigans).

It was fine in small doses, but 10 hours of Charlie talking about her lady bits, leaking (the number of times she talks about her period and leakage cannot be underestimated), and fantasizing about sex with famous actors wore me out.

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