My Fucking Menopause Book, jacket on and jacket off

Take the jacket off.

The jacket is loud. Underneath is a forest-green cloth hardback with nothing printed on the cover and two words stamped in gold on the spine. So it can be the funniest thing in the room when your sister gives it to you, and completely anonymous on a nightstand an hour later.

See the book
  • A week takes twenty seconds

    Six marks and one line. Hours slept, times up in the night, a tick per flush, a circled mood, and the one thing that stood out.

  • The page you photograph

    Once a month, every day of the month on one page. After three or four months it stops being a record and becomes an argument.

  • The questions nobody asks

    Appointment prep that opens with the three things you will not leave without asking — and the part nobody raises unprompted.

There is no advice in it

No programme, no thirty-day reset, no doses, nothing filled in for you. It is structure and blank space, and the structure exists so you can describe a year accurately instead of from memory.

A journal for your own records. Not medical advice.