As Cosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers while having to keep up with the changing mores & attitudes in British & American society In these memoirs she looks back on the seismic transformations that have taken place over the last four decades as well as her own hectic & often difficult life as a single mum from America living in London Warm funny & perceptive brimming with wisdom & insight My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern & confuse us the most
- from mother-daughter relationships through to eating disorders office politics & those perennial areas of interest love & sex