Elaine Ambrose

Author, Speaker & Verified Funny Lady

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About Elaine

   Elaine Ambrose is a #1 bestselling author of eight books, including Menopause Sucks,  Midlife Cabernet, and Midlife Happy Hour.  She's also an award-winning syndicated blogger on several online sites.  Midlife Happy Hour was a finalist for the 2016 Foreword Book of the Year award for Humor. Foreword Reviews gave the book a rare 5-Star Review. The book won First Place in the Independent Press Awards for Midlife and was selected as a "Distinguished Favorite" for Humor. Elaine recently won an … READ MORE about About Elaine

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Ambrose faces the frights, frustrations, and fancies of aging in this refreshingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny survival guide for middle-aged women. Infusing her prose with sarcastic dark humor, the author offers homespun recommendations on dating and sex, raising adult children, and the physical effects of aging—all with brazen cheer.
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~Publisher’s Weekly

“Ambrose’s memoir/how-to-survive-aging guidebook reads like a mashup of Erma Bombeck and Nicole Hollander’s Sylvia comic strip…The originality is in Ambrose’s unique life story… I feel I have encountered her material in books by Bombeck or Nora Ephron.”

~The Critic Report

The joys and perils of midlife are equally celebrated in this very funny book, whose author laughs her way through a wide variety of topics—from growing up in an age when women were expected to fill a very narrow role to fighting for career successes in the male-dominated corporate world. Ambrose recalls raising kids, growing older, and staying passionate about life.
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~Foreword Reviews