Authors Jane Shilling and Rebecca Abrams have a frank and thought-provoking discussion about some of the issues facing women in middle age.

Shilling, a journalist who writes on books for the Telegraph and Daily Mail, says middle age took her by surprise. The Stranger in the Mirror is an attempt to come to terms with what middle age means for her. She considers whether a revolution is under way as a new generation of women turn 50 and discovers that there is fun to be had in middle age.

She will talk to Abrams, an award-winning author and journalist who has explored women’s experiences of motherhood and marriage in both her fiction and non-fiction. She is a tutor in creative writing at the University of Oxford and First Story writer-in-residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon.