Allison Pearson revisits bestselling heroine in middle age

I Don’t Know How She Does It author returns to heroine Kate Reddy, now contending with age discrimination at work and ‘chaos’ at homeHelen Fielding returned us unexpectedly to the world of Bridget Jones two years ago, the eternal singleton now 51, widowed, and dipping a tentative toe into the waters of online dating. Now Allison Pearson is set to revisit another of modern women’s fiction’s most popular heroines, Kate Reddy, throwing the star of I Don’t Know How She Does It up against everything from the “dreadful bias against older women in the workplace” to the “chaos” of the menopause.Last seen aged 34 in the 2002 bestseller, Reddy was the City fund manager trying to keep up with her high-flying job while managing her two children, nanny, cleaner and husband. In a just-announced sequel, out next autumn and acquired for a high six-figure sum by Borough Press in the UK, and for seven figures by St Martin’s Press in the US, the “walking-talking, wheeler-dealing, nappy-changing, occasionally weeping woman we all identified with” will be “fast approaching 50”, revealed the British publisher. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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