Hags

''Rich, complex and witty'' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR''Devastating and clever'' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL''Could not be more necessary'' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVERWhat is about women in their forties and be ...

''Rich, complex and witty'' ROSE GEORGE, SPECTATOR''Devastating and clever'' BEL MOONEY, DAILY MAIL''Could not be more necessary'' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVERWhat is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme -