Virago acquires Dr. Stella Duffy’s groundbreaking new book on post-menopause, ‘Being the Change’

06/01/2025

We are delighted to share the news that Dr Stella Duffy’s new book, Being the Change: Shaping Your Creative Postmenopause, will be publishing with Virago in the spring of 2027!

Drawing from Duffy’s PhD studies, Being the Change focuses on how we can shape and make the most of our postmenopause, which can be a quarter to a third of a woman’s life. It re-conceptualises menopause as the gateway to a time of new life – far from an end, but a wake-up call to a vital third act.

Publisher Sarah Savitt bought UK and translation rights to Being the Change from Stephanie Cabot in an exclusive submission.

On Stella and Being the Change, Savitt said: “Anyone who’s encountered Stella – in person or on the page – know how wise and inspiring she is, and I’m delighted that she’s going to write non-fiction for the first time. Drawing on her academic research, her psychotherapy practice and her own life, Being the Change will be a groundbreaking book, and one that feels so fitting for the Virago list because of how it will foreground a subject that is mainly ignored and invisible in our society.”

Dr Duffy added: “Having been postmenopausal since my thirties, I am clear that while menopause brings challenges for many of us, there is life afterwards, and we can choose to move forward with hope and self-commitment. In sharing my own experience and that of my research interviewees, Being the Change will offer possibility and practical tools for creating a vibrant and fulfilling period of our lives.”