This is an important guide for women of all ages to the very latest information they need to make informed choices about health and wellbeing at every stage of life from childhood through to active retirement.

Throughout our lives women face a range of particular health issues that can be both challenging and confusing. Now, in The Seven Ages of Woman, Dr Rosemary Leonard draws on her extensive experience as a family GP and media health adviser to distil the health knowledge we all need as women living in the 21st century. Practical and reassuring, this comprehensive guide offers invaluable advice on the... * EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS - how to cope with your daughter's physical and emotional development and ease her journey from girlhood to womanhood... * REPRODUCTIVE YEARS - juggling career and family relationships - how best to care for your health (and sanity) during these challenging years... * PERIMENOPAUSAL AND MENOPAUSAL YEARS - a time of uncertainty for many - how to achieve a sense of balance and wellbeing during these years of transition... * ACTIVE RETIREMENT AND BEYOND - making the most of these 'freedom' years and how to stay active and independent for as long as possible... Drawing on conventional and proven complementary therapies, Dr Leonard explains how we can prevent and treat a range of conditions through diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. She also provides tips on beauty and skincare that will help us all to look and feel our best - whatever our age. Replacing doubt and uncertainty with sound, trustworthy advice, this must-have guide provides women of all ages with the very latest information they need to make informed choices about health and wellbeing for themselves, their families and friends.

The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.