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Jaki Scarcello refers to these years as the 'harvest years' when women have a wealth of experience to give back to the community and vehemently refutes the idea that women of a certain age should feel invisible. The benefits of changing attitudes to aging are clearly spelled out and difficult to argue with but I found the book less convincing on how one should attain this state of serenity.
The book is written with humour and is based on Scarcello's interviews with women in their mid-forties to those who've scored their century. The case studies are fascinating and it was fascinating interesting to realise that most of the women with this positive attitude to aging were still feisty and interesting forthcoming no matter what their age.
The book is quite slight. It weighs in at 224 pages but you need to take account of the fact that on most double-page spreads parts of the text are reproduced in a larger font (which I found particularly annoying as I kept loosing the thread of the argument) and each chapter is preceded by a plain black page. There's a spiritual depth to what Scarcello has to say, but I'd love to have read more about the women, or Scarcello's thoughts about them rather than having the padding.
