Описание: Conscious uncoupling, single parenting, dating and mating. Throw in career reinvention, a fiscal meltdown to rival the GFC, and a determination to have some fun along the way, its clear one Gap Year was never going to be enough
Facing a crumbling marriage, an insecure financial future, and the daunting prospect of single parenthood, Nathy Gaffney was scared. At the age of forty-seven, it felt like all her friends had their acts together, while she was a struggling actress flailing for a lifeline. Would she survive her menopausal mid-life reinvention?
In her no-holds-barred memoir The Gap Year(s), Gaffney takes readers on a raw and rollicking odyssey through heartbreak, utter resolve, and ultimate redemption. Refusing to take on the role society designates for women in their middle-aged years, Gaffney opts for possibility and transformation (with a liberal sprinkling of sexual renaissance). With courage and relentless enthusiasm, she shape-shifts herself and her life into what she wants it to become, not what society thinks it should be.
In a voice that is authentic, relatable and deeply human, Gaffney pours her greatest fears and disappointments onto these pages of her memoir. Its an inspiring journey that leads Gaffney to retire from her wilting acting career and reinvent herself as a successful leadership coach, and to find (and very nearly lose) fresh new love in the arms of an adventure seeking high altitude mountaineer twenty years her junior.
The Gap Years is a story of hope and empowerment and refusing to settle for less than what you deserve.
