This particular 40th birthday gift is just for women, but we’ve also written one especially for men. You can find our Survival Guide For Your Forties Male Edition here on our site.

If the important woman in your life is feeling a little wistful at the thought of bidding farewell to her 30s, this book might just head off some of those anxieties. It's designed to make her smile and to offer up a light-hearted and thoughtful take on turning 40. You can also personalise it to speak to her own experiences and add in some reassurance alongside the jokes.

Creator, mother, lover and social media phenomenon, Tova Leigh is the Queen of 40-something rage. She’s made her name by writing about a life she didn’t remember signing up for. Her successful 2015 blog, 'My Thoughts About Stuff', showcased her blunt rants about motherhood, marriage and sex. Her viral online series 'Mom Life Crisis' documents her own mid-life crisis and was picked up by Amazon. She’s written two books: ‘F*cked at 40: Life Beyond Suburbia, Monogamy and Stretch Marks’ (one women’s search for her own vagina), and ‘You Did What?’, a collection of funny and outrageous confessions from everyday people. Tova also co-hosts a weekly podcast, 'Till Death Do Us Pod', with her husband Mike and has toured two successful one-woman comedy shows worldwide. Is she funny? Well, humour is subjective, but she makes us laugh.

Everybody needs a laugh and a little guidance from time to time, so we’ve written a collection of survival guides for several of life’s milestones. There's our Survival Guide For Your Forties Male Edition (naturally) which you can find here. We’ve also made a Survival Guide for New Parents, a refreshingly honest, personalised guide for people who have recently made their very own human (and who don’t mind a bit of bad language).