What if growing older wasn't about fading away, but finally stepping into your full power?
Here, one of Ireland's most beloved voices invites us to rethink what it is to age - personally, socially and spiritually. With warmth, openness and insight, Mary shares her own experience of growing older, alongside the reflections of wise and remarkable elders who have lived, strived and thrived through life's seasons.
While Mary doesn't shy away from the realities of ageing - loneliness, forgetfulness, slowing down - she also celebrates the gifts of later life: greater freedom, self-understanding, and the quiet joy of prioritising your own needs. She shows how age can be a time of healing, of returning to the past not to dwell on it but to liberate ourselves in the present.
A beautiful celebration of the richness of age, and a reminder that the later chapters may be the most powerful of all.
MARY KENNEDY is one of Ireland's best-known broadcasters and writers. Her distinguished career with RTÉ spanned more than four decades and included presenting the Eurovision Song Contest and the beloved programme Nationwide. She is the bestselling author of Paper Tigers, Lines I Love, Lines for Living and What Matters, and co-author, with her sister Deirdre Nì Chinnéide, of Journey to the Well: Connecting to Celtic Ways and Wisdom. Mary continues to work in broadcasting through television and podcasting projects, including TG4's Moving West and the popular Changing Times podcast, which she co-hosts with former President Mary McAleese. A mother of four and grandmother of seven, she lives in Dublin.
