The Power Age: A Blueprint for Maturing with Style

by Kelly Doust

The Power Age is the ultimate guide to maturing with style, confidence, and influence.

Like fine wine, women improve with age—growing in financial, sexual, and spiritual power every year. So why spend your second act collecting dust or invisible on the sidelines? With this exquisite full-color volume you’ll learn how to age like a pro. Candid, empowering guidance and interviews with style icons, world leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainers who’ve made an art of growing older will show you that you are never too old to embark on an international or spiritual journey, to create a vibrant wardrobe filled with statement pieces, or to take the reins of your career and investments. With refreshing wisdom on how to manage everything from menopause, money, and mentorship to sex, stress, and skincare, The Power Age is like chatting with a circle of witty and wonderful friends and sisters. No topic—faith, grief, health, or finances—is off the table and no question is too sensitive to ask.

Original illustrations highlight more than fifty power age women of past and present—from the late and beloved Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Maya Angelou to Michelle Obama, Iris Apfel, and Julia Roberts—and appear side by side with pragmatic tips on keeping fit and healthy, embracing travel and adventure, and practicing self-care and reflection. In total The Power Age is a comprehensive guide to living your best life going forward, and one that ensures that the best opportunities for pleasure, freedom, and expression are yet to come.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

Published November 24, 2020

About the author

Kelly Doust is the author of the novels 'Dressing the Dearloves' and 'Precious Things'; 'A Life in Frocks' (a memoir); vintage fashion bible 'Minxy Vintage: how to customise & wear vintage clothing' and The Crafty Minx series of craft books.

With a background in book publishing and publicity, Kelly has worked in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia, and has freelanced for Vogue, Australian Women’s Weekly and Sunday Life Magazine.

She currently lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and daughter and works as a Lifestyle Publisher for Murdoch Books.

Reviews

[Ngarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was written and researched well but it felt like it was only scratching the surface and left me feeling like I wanted a more in depth exploration of the ideas covered.
This book is probably more meaningful for a particular group of women - more educated and affluent.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not too much that I haven't read in magazine and online articles. Some interviews are interesting but most of the advice was pretty basic.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting stuff in here along with some interesting interviews. However, I have some nitpicking to do. It really bothers me when the implication is made that early to mid-forties women are no longer "youthful" or are already well on their way to a downward spiral of old age and invisibility. If we (women) want to change the culture of what "old" is, we need to quit making the assertions that woman in their 40s are already over-the-hill - which unfortunately is what this book implies. Also, it bothers me when a book about empowerment of women and, basically, that age is just a number, several of the women interviewed did not reveal their age -- are they ashamed of being over 40/50/60??? I thought that was the whole point of these kinds of books -- that women shouldn't be afraid of (and their worth isn't determined by) a number.

[Debra Hines · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw this book in Book Pages and since I'm definitely a mature woman in her 60s, I thought this book might have something inspiring for me. It's pretty standard fair- nothing new or profound, but it does cover all aspects of women as we age- career, family, health, loss, spirituality, travel, fashion, and more. It has interviews with mostly people from the fashion world and drawings of famous women who span 40- 70s. It was fine....hoping for some new insights or inspiring interviews/essays but mostly standard platitudes about aging. Some positive reminders about how to make our later years meaningful.

[BookLover · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVED this beautiful book. Its illustrations are gorgeous and its interviews with experts cover everything from health to style, finance to careers, romance to friendships. Easy to read, practical, insightful, and fun–like a tell-all brunch with your smartest, most candid girlfriends (at a stylish restaurant).

[Sherilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reinforced, expanded, and encouraged the view from inside this stage of life related to personal wellbeing and all of the other factors impacting life.

"Life has greater poignancy when you realize there's less of it to live with each passing year ." -Kelly Doust

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