LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE

A memoir of how life looks, from the perspective of a woman in her 50s

The #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "A Short Guide to a Happy Life" gives us a candid, funny book in which she uses her past, present and future, to explore what matters to women, in the decades of life, and overall. She addresses marriage, girlfriends, children, mother-daughter relationships, faith, possessions, solitude and more and like her other non-fiction, and her original New York Times column, "Life in the 30's," this book gives us the heartfelt, insightful, wise Quindlen, the one who says for us what we wish we could have said ourselves! In addition to authoring the million-copy bestseller "A Short Guide to a Happy Life", "Being Perfect " and "Good Dog. Stay", Anna Quindlen wrote a number of columns for the New York Times, of which her second, "Public and Private," won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is the author of six bestselling novels. From 2000 to 2009, she wrote the "Last Word" column for Newsweek. She has drawn praise as America's "laureate of real life" and "the most eloquent voice" of her generation. Quindlen is loved for her spot-on observation and understanding of modern life, and she delivers those in full force here.