Overgrown - Betsy Price

When a friend has the audacity to suggest that forty-five-year-old landscape gardener Eliza Hamilton is hurtling toward menopause, she is naturally appalled. Menopause is something that happens to other women, older women.

As Eliza tries to negotiate this new and confusing landscape, she also embarks on the biggest challenge of her career so far. But she soon discovers that juggling erratic mood swings with motherhood, demanding family members and domestic drudgery is not the harmonious scenario shed envisaged.

If Eliza wants to embrace midlife without the crisis, she must first make some grown up choices and face some rather uncomfortable home truths.