Rage, lust and radical growth: 5 hot menopause novels

Key points

• Fiction about menopause is only recently gaining ground, after wellness guides and memoirs led the way. Five novels now tackle its early stages with force.
• Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams follows a 45-year-old London woman who, after her husband leaves and she loses her jobs, storms across the city on foot after a hot flush. Miranda July's All Fours sees an artist redefine herself during a secret detour from a road trip.
• Joanne Harris's Broken Light gives a menopausal woman newly activated psychic powers. Victoria Hannan's I Love the Whole World!