She's earned her stripes. But the hive's misbehaving. Insomnia How do I have three extra adult males - and a small yappy dog - living in my house when I need to grow into a graceful and sexual midlife woman? Rage Am furious. Anxiety What's going to happen to my career if I can't get out of this rut? Feel invisible.

What is happening to me? Fifty-year-old Agatha Doyle loves her empty nest - until hot flushes, a pair of killer heels and an overbearing man who won't stop talking conspire to change her life. In one moment of madness, she unwittingly becomes a heroine to women everywhere. But can she become the heroine of her own life? Sometimes you just have to wing it.

'Laugh-out-loud funny with a spikily endearing heroine who runs full tilt at the menopause with a baseball bat in her hands .