Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)
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Journalist, broadcaster, author. Creator of The Shift with Sam Baker podcast and substack. Endlessly banging the drum for women in midlife and beyond.
Wild feminist on the edge of old mythology and new imagining. Author of No Fair Maidens - A Wild Journey With The Lost Goddesses Of Britain (Doubleday, Penguin Random House, 2026)
Trini-Londoner, Buddhist, cat guardian, Costa Book of the Year, 2020, The Mermaid of Black Conch. Latest book, Passiontide. Activist with Hard Art, co-organiser Hey! festivals, Professor of Contemporary Fiction, MMU. Dragonfly out with Cape, 2027.
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