Suddenly Single at Sixty – Embracing a New Chapter: Rediscovering Yourself and Thriving After 60

January 24, 2025

You’ve just celebrated your 25th wedding anniversary two weeks ago and your 60th birthday four weeks ago. Life seems to be going along fine until one ordinary day out of the blue your husband tells you ‘I’m seeing someone else’.

I recently interviewed Jo Peck, author of Suddenly Single at Sixty for a Women Living Well After 50 Podcast episode. She is an intelligent woman, former business owner for over 20 years of a successful ad agency ‘Working Girls Advertising’ and also born in the same year as me. Her book is about how she recovered from those four words and regained her life. She writes about the good times in her marriage with travel, adventure and good friends. But after the ‘declaration’, on reflection, Jo realised that it was not good all the time and she was doing most of the compromising.

This is not a pity party book. It’s about Jo carrying on in a new direction, taking risks and being open to new opportunities. Treading into the unknow waters of online dating at 60 after being in a relationship for more than 25 years. She doesn’t sugar coat the bad times she had – the self-doubts which plague us after this type of experience but I found the book funny at times, sad, angry at others but mostly a woman finding her way and regaining her ‘sense of self’.

This would be a great holiday read over the summer and then a perfect introduction for the Podcast episode. Put it on you list of 2025 reads.

Listen to the Podcast

Suddenly Single at Sixty with Jo Peck

Watch the Video

https://youtu.be/1I5t1NbZaVk

Jo Peck grew up in Healesville, Victoria. She worked in advertising for thirty-five years, co-running her own ad agency, Working Girls Advertising, for twenty of those years. She lives in Melbourne with her new partner.

Jo Peck: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/jopeck

Suddenly Single at Sixty (including bio): https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/suddenly-single-at-sixty