Maria Ian Audiobooks

Menopause, Your Second Spring: a health and wellbeing listen read by Maria Ian

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is Maria Ian?

Second spring is a hopeful phrase to attach to a subject usually discussed in the language of loss, and that reframing is the whole proposition of Menopause, Your Second Spring. Maria Ian presents the transition as a beginning with its own weather rather than as an ending to be managed.

Our catalogue files the work under health and wellbeing and again under personal development, a double shelving that fits the territory exactly. Menopause is physiological and it is also a rearrangement of how a life is organised, and books addressing only the first half tend to leave listeners short.

The recording is read by the author, which in health writing is always worth noticing.

Maria Ian in audiobooks

Five and a half hours is a generous length for the subject, enough to cover symptoms, options and the wider adjustment without becoming a clinical reference. Hearing it in Maria Ian’s own voice matters here more than in most genres, since a great deal of what makes this kind of book useful is the sense of being spoken to rather than instructed.

No listener verdicts have been recorded yet, so there is no consensus to report, encouraging or otherwise. That makes the sample the sensible first step, particularly if you want to check the tone before settling in for the full stretch.

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