Menopausing: Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2023, and Sunday Times bestselling self-help guide, to help you cope with symptoms and live your best life during menopause

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Menopausing will also celebrate the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood and talk openly and positively about menopause. No more scaremongering: just evidence-based info,no shame: real women, real menopause stories, real empathy, real community, honest, no-holds-barred advice: Dry vagina? Zero sex drive? Hair loss? We’ve got it covered.

That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the truth, so you can make an informed decision about your life and your body. Even if I have to throw (with a deep elbow to its gut) my life as it stands today, on its head, I’m ready. I can’t thank Davina enough for this book. I would encourage everyone to read it… may just safe your life and your sanity ! This book tells so many different, but so many similar stories of women with one common theme - we should talk about these things more and we should seek to be heard and be given help and support if we need it.

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Six months after the book was released, it continues to rank highly in the bestselling book charts.

Lisa Milton, Executive Publisher at HQ, added: ‘Since the launch of HQ, we’ve been looking for the right menopause book for a general audience. Davina’s Menopausing is the perfect book to bring menopause into the mainstream. For far too long, there’s been too little information, now we want to bust the myths, remove the taboo and create the book that every woman wants, and every man should read.’ The menopause gave me my voice’: designer and campaigner Karen Arthur. Photograph: Claire Pepper/That's Not My Age A must-read for peri/menopausal women AND their partners ..... Really helps your family understand what you're going through. Every lady's best friend has formed an elite team and written the Menopause Bible. If you have only the vaguest of notions that you're not your 'usual self' - maybe you're more tired/in pain/emotional/forgetful/murderous than normal - read or listen to this. Then give your GP a copy.I feel exactly the same after this book as I did after her documentary. Absolutely let down by my own GP. But it has ignited my resolve to try and get heard somewhere. By exploring and explaining the science, debunking damaging myths, and smashing the taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, this book will equip women to make the most informed decisions about their health… and their lives. A must read. I started having what I thought were hot flushes and a friend recommended this book. Oh my word, I have so many of the perimenopause symptoms without knowing what they were. I've been to my GP about various things, including aches and aside from being sent for an x-ray nothing more was said or done Dr Nighat Arif, the BBC Breakfast GP and menopause specialist, tries to reach out to her underserved community by doing TikToks in Urdu. The #MakeMenopauseMatter campaign is aiming for 150,000 signatures on a petition to parliament demanding mandatory menopause training for all GPs, and menopause policies in every workplace.

The book promises to explore and explain the science around the perimenopause and menopause, debunk damaging myths, and smash the taboos to bring this vital conversation firmly into the mainstream. Such an informative book! Gave me the information I needed and the courage to finally go to the doctor. Davina has also given up these menopause culprits. She said: “I’m sober…so that’s quite helpful in a way and there’s so much sugar in booze so we forget about that.

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For too long, women have had to keep quiet about the menopause – its onset, its symptoms, its treatments – and what it means for us. Menopausing will build an empowered, supportive community to break this terrible silence once and for all.

Great to have a real insight into the unknown area of our female lives. At last!!! Thank you Davina Weird really how in the past women have just shut up and put up with this and have not really known what has been going on with their bodies... Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising. Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence. Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it? That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the truth, so you can make an informed decision about your life and your body … mic drop. Although it sounds a little bit cliched, it actually isn’t. It really works, [things] like dropping alcohol, or dropping sugar, exercising.There are oestrogen receptors in every part of your body and if fluctuating hormones are sending erratic electrical signals to your heart and internal thermostat, what messages might they send to your mind? Not long after my mother died after a long haul with Alzheimer’s disease, and I’d juggled going up to Glasgow to help care for her, a full-time job as the Times film critic in London, and raising three children, I suddenly needed to escape all responsibility. I got divorced and I changed career. I just couldn’t cope, waking up at 3am sweating and anxious. It wasn’t just the menopause but midlife unravelling, too, or as psychotherapist Susie Orbach puts it: “The menopause arrives, seeking out our vulnerabilities like a guided missile, just as we need all our strength to cope with daily life.”