Megan Halpern

The Year I Lost My Shape

A story about change, control, and starting again

A memoir

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The Year I Lost My Shape by Megan Halpern: the title in tall hand-drawn capitals between two red shapes that pinch a cream page into an hourglass.

The year she turned forty,

  • her body changed after a long illness,
  • her job ended,
  • and the routines she had always used to keep her life under control stopped working.

For readers going through a change they did not ask for.

This is the honest, sometimes funny story of that year: of trying to force her old life back into its old shape, failing, and slowly learning to start again with a different idea of who she is.

Inside the year

Change

Her body, after a long illness, and the job that ended.

Control

The routines she had always used, and why they stopped working.

Starting again

Learning a different idea of who she is.

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Megan Halpern

A writer. This is her memoir, so she is also its subject.

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What readers say

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Publication

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The Year I Lost My Shape

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The Year I Lost My Shape by Megan Halpern, front cover.

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For groups

For book clubs

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Questions

Who is this book for?

Anyone going through a change they did not ask for.

Is it self-help?

No. It is a memoir: one woman's honest, sometimes funny year.

Which formats, and is there an audiobook?

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