Holding Out for a Hero, Five Steps to Marriage Over 40

by Lesley Lawson Botez

If you dream of a loving relationship, Holding out for a Hero, Five Steps to Marriage Over 40 is for you. At 40+ you know what you want. You have a good job, plenty of friends, a great home. You just aren’t meeting the right person to share your life with. There seem to be fewer opportunities. You keep repeating the same patterns. Join psychologist Lesley Lawson Botez, MSc, herself a 40+ bride, and dozens of couples who share their stories on a five-step journey to relationship bliss. Discover how to get rid of what’s holding you back, the meeting opportunities that work, whether a new relationship is worth pursuing and how to deal with challenges like past baggage. Packed with exercises, case studies and useful tips, /Holding out for a Hero/ proves that relationship happiness can begin at any age.

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2015

About the author

Lesley Lawson Botez MSc PGCert MSSWJ is an English-born writer, university lecturer in luxury fashion and psychologist. She met her husband in her 40s when travelling with friends to the desert. The hows and whys of late marriage raised so many questions for her that she decided to investigate further. The result was her relationship guide "Holding out for a hero, five steps to marriage over 40".

Lawson Botez began her writing career as a copywriter for Saatchi before setting up her own communications agency, later running communications departments for a private Swiss bank and then the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Following her marriage in her 40s, Lawson Botez studied psychology at Geneva University and then Creative Writing at Kingston University London.

She teaches luxury and design, academic English, boosting creativity and design thinking at business universities and writing schools. She researches and writes on luxury, sustainability and design. Articles include: How to connect with the new generation of luxury shoppers https://onresearch.ch/on-research-ins... and book review of the curious economics of luxury fashion https://issuu.com/euruni

Lawson Botez was runner up for non-fiction in the Geneva Writers’ Group 2014 literary awards. Her short story, First Choice, was published in Offshoots 12.

Reviews

[Sherida Deeprose]

Targeted at the never-married-over-40's, this book contains good counsel for navigating love and marriage in middle-age and up. Memoir combined with self-help, the book peppers it's advice with true stories of couples who have found love and marriage later in life. Well-written and easy to read.