The long game

A smile is like a face lift. That is all anyone needs. Joy shows on your face. Daphne Selfe, 97, model (pictured) Society and social media keep telling us that old age is a sad thing for women to expe

When it feels like you might be working ...

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and

Writer Sandra Parsons has a biological age that’s 43 years lower than her real age. She’s living proof that you can turn back the clock – now she’s sharing what worked for her in her new book, Age Less

By the time I was in my mid 40s, I’d smoked 15 cigarettes a day for more than 25 years. A mother of two young children, I was also working long hours in a high pressure job. I’d dash home to read to t

The models of ageing I saw as a child did not make it look aspirational. My grandparents lived lives that seemed small and entirely domestic. A 20-pack a day and a whisky, a cup of tea and a biscuit a