An uplifting, inspiring book about the wisdom of older women - and what we can learn from them to rewrite the story of the second half of our lives.

'I want to hear the wisdom from women about where we really live, deep in our hearts ... I want to hear the wisdom about our invisibility, our imaginations, our traumas, our joys, our changing roles, our loves and our death. How do we age in this body so that we can launch full tilt to the sky even as it wrinkles and slows and stiffens and breaks? It's my intention with this book to work out how to age with the requisite love and rebellion that it surely requires. Hopefully, with the right kind of revolution, we can set the course for generations to come.'

A Wisdom of Age was sparked by the many conversations Jacinta Parsons has had with older women from right around the country about the experience of being a woman and ageing. Over the course of these encounters, it became clear to Jacinta that the conversation about ageing for women is alive and bubbling with a kind of excitement - that is, women are ready to do ageing differently.

In this book, Jacinta talks to the older women who inspire her, the women who are doing this ageing thing right, mining the wisdom direct from those that know how to do it well. Drawing from the experiences of everyday older women from every walk of life, Jacinta reflects on conversations she's been having about the 'wisdoms' of ageing, asking: now that we know what's held us back and who has controlled this narrative, how can we do this better?

A Wisdom of Age captures the brewing tone of revolution that sits in the hearts of middle age and older women who are ready to age differently, to tell a different story about ageing - that is, to tell a story of women's ageing being about reclaiming the fierce girl we have inside us; about an unapologetic taking up of space; about speaking out, about re-finding our confidence and finally, about wisdom.