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The Dark Night of the Shed

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13th August 2015

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781473616844

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Men, the midlife crisis, spirituality – and sheds

A new bike – running the marathon – splashing out on a sports car – having an affair – taking up triathlon – upping sticks and moving to the country – getting divorced – even going into the church…

There’s a point in a man’s life where he looks around him and asks whether this is really where he wants to be – what he wanted to do with his life. And even if he’s achieved all his childhood dreams, maybe that’s not enough any more.

Nick Page has been there, and he decided to build a shed. Not to answer the question, but so that he’d at least be able to get some peace to think about it properly. Join him on a journey of discovery, into what the midlife crisis really is, and whether there’s a better way to go at it than frittering away time and money trying to pretend you’re really younger than you are.

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Clare Balding - BBC Radio 2
"I have to say I loved it, I love Nick Page's writing, I love his humour... he's got some very serious points to make which are particularly relevant to men, but to anyone really."
The Church Newspaper
A funny but insightful book about mid-life crisis in men... this new book deserves a wider readership.
Woman Alive Magazine
A witty, deep book... One to buy as an early Christmas present for a man in your life.
The Irish Catholic
An amusing book, but one with a profound message worth attending to.
Russ Bravo, Inspire Magazine
If I had to choose an author to sit in a pub with, put the world to rights, enjoy a beer, share a few jokes and prod the hairy subject of God and the male midlife crisis with a stick, there are few I'd choose over Nick Page...Few other books can provide that sense of a journey, genuinely do-able devotional suggestions, Biblical insight, lessons from Old Testament heroes and Percy the Park Keeper, generously interspersed with wit, good humour and some healthy self-deprecation.
One Man in the Middle
Join him on a journey of discovery, into what the midlife crisis really is, and whether there's a better way to go at it than frittering away time and money trying to pretend you're really younger than you are.
The Church Times
Much knowledge from psychology, especially Jung, sociology, and popular culture, is expressed in an always readable, informative way.
The Telegraph
Nick Page wrote about the male mid life crisis for The Telegraph: In our forties and fifties levels of happiness and life satisfaction dip to their lowest levels - here's how to deal with the turbulant middle ages
Gransnet
The Dark Night of the Shed - Nick Page. There's a point in a man's life where he looks around him and asks whether this is really where he wants to be. Nick Page has been there, and he decided to build a shed. Not to answer the question, but so that he'd at least be able to get some peace to think about it properly.
Harry Farley, Christian Today
The Dark Night of the Shed (Hodder) is a vulnerable, honest and amusing exploration of why many men have so much and yet feel like failures. Why are our cities full of middle aged men in lycra? Why do so many men reach the top of the mountain only to realise there is nothing there?