Happily Ever After Marriage
A Reinvention in Midlife
Candid, humorous and full of fascinating stories, Happily Ever After Marriage is part modern guide, part passionate conversation with friends and part meditation on what can be seen as a new rite of passage to self-actualization in mid-life. By bravely examining her own life, Hampson brings clarity to the underlying cultural messages that inform the choices we make – and shows how embracing change at mid-life can open oneself to new possibilities of connectedness.
"[Hampson] finds a good balance between the personal and the professional, humour and nostalgia, and even men and women. . . . She is brutally likable, her writing smooth and honest and self-deprecating, her story real and relatable. And even better, no dude rides up in an Audi to save the divorcée in distress. Take that, fairy tale."
— The Globe and Mail
With great compassion and insight, Sarah Hampson takes the reader on a journey through the dilemma of divorce: its confusion and pain as well as the clarity and contentedness it can bring. She shares her stories and wisdom like a treasured friend, which is what you will feel she is by the time you finish Happily Ever After Marriage.”
— Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle
Compassionate, bracing and rich in life-tested wisdom, this is a book that mid-life women have been waiting for. Sarah Hampson points the way from the bruising disappointments of love gone wrong to new possibilities for growth and connection.”
— Rona Maynard
Talking about the stories and insights in Happily Ever After Marriage, a Reinvention in Midlife, at the Montreal book launch at Librairie Paragraphe on McGill College Ave in May 2010.
2010 book signing