When I was a teenager I thought love would solve everything. In my early twenties I thought sex would solve everything. By my late twenties, I thought a career would solve everything.
At age thirty I thought marriage would solve everything, and then - when it didn't - I was sure that motherhood would. By my late thirties, following a brief period of certainty that therapy would solve everything, I became convinced that divorce would solve everything.
At forty I saw how absurd this all was, and decided to renovate.
So what do you really want? More and better sex? Less sex? A stellar career? True love, a big fat wedding, children? Are you still trying to Have it All, or would you settle for the five minutes of peace you can get by locking yourself in the bathroom once a fortnight?
'What Women Want Next' is a guide for the perplexed of both genders. Susan Maushart unsheathes her notorious wit and unerring sense of style on the knotty question of feminine fulfilment in a postfeminist world. What do women want from love and sex, marriage and motherhood, friends, family and career?
And how much of it can we get?
