Women don’t disappear at 50

What do you think is going to happen to you as you get older? Before I started working on this story, I quietly but genuinely believed I was going to become less. Less healthy, less capable, less attr

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

When it feels like you might be working ...

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

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

The TV presenter and novelist, who turns 68 this month, on weight loss, her unusual way with words, and why she has fallen in love with going to church