More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran review – superbly funny

Superhero mums, big bums, married sex and Botox … the larky, and moving, follow-up to How to Be a Woman explores the thorny issues of middle age

At the start of her new book, Caitlin Moran is visited by the ghost of her future who gleefully informs her that while she may think that the most difficult parts of her life are behind her, she doesn’t know the half of it. This is because while your teens and 20s are about dealing with your own problems, your 30s, 40s and 50s find you taking on everyone else’s. “Mate, forget the AA, you’re just about to become the Fourth Emergency Service,” explains Moran’s future self. “Your life’s about to become a call centre for people who are exploding.”

Thus, in More Than a Woman – the sequel to the mega-selling 2011 book How to Be a Woman – Moran, now 45, takes a second look at womanhood, this time from the vantage point of middle age. Part memoir, part manifesto, it tackles such thorny issues as anal sex, smear tests, hangovers, teenagers, ageing parents, careers, the tyranny of the to-do list, big bums and the moment when your entire wardrobe seems to turn against you.

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