Pause... and Effect: A Sand-Trodden Journey Through Menopause and Beyond

What happens when everything you thought you knew about yourself suddenly stops making sense?

At 52, Lyndsey Barnes has built a life. A career. A routine. And then one day she snaps, walks away from all of it, and has absolutely no idea why.
What she does not yet know is that she has just stepped onto the menopause rollercoaster, and it is about to take her somewhere she never expected to go.
From the grey, familiar streets of the Pacific Northwest to the sun-drenched shores of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lyndsey's journey is messy, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant. Along the way she finds the doctor who finally listens, the friends who show up when it matters, and the long-buried dreams she had convinced herself no longer counted.

But the most unexpected discovery of all is this: her best chapter has not passed. It has not even started yet.
Pause... and Effect is a coming-of-old-age story for every woman who has ever felt blindsided by her own body, dismissed by the medical system, or quietly wondered whether the life she really wanted had somehow slipped past her without her noticing.

It has not. And this book will remind you why.
Witty, warm, deeply human, and impossible to put down, Pause... and Effect is the award-winning novel that turns the menopause conversation into something every woman in her 40s and 50s will want to press into the hands of every friend she loves.

Your Third Act is waiting. This is where it begins.