THIS IS A LOVE SONG
“This is a love song” is a beautiful homage to the transitions that define us; the hesitant steps of adulting, menopause, the slow unfolding of age, and the constancy of friendship, family, and love.”
Sehrish Haq, Goodreads
“Honour has made me fall in love with my generation. She seamlessly weaved between childhood nostalgia, teen angst in a tiny town and the glaring fact that we are on the other side of 50.
Honour brings it all back vividly, yet strides into the future with no fear.”
Diane Nelson, Goodreads
“This book! Prepare to be taken on an open, honest, heart warming nostalgic journey back to your teens, with perfectly described visuals of the daily sights, smells and sounds we lived. Then, nod along to the equally open, honest and sometimes heart wrenching hot messy journey of our 50′; Motherhood, Marriage and Menopause…..”
Lisa Clark, Book Sirens
The story
Have you ever looked at the number of birthday candles and thought how’d I get this old? Ever heard a song that takes you back to those sweaty high school dances, pining for a crush to approach, and thought, wasn’t that just a minute ago? They’re questions I ask myself all the time.
This is a Love Song is my answer.
I wish I could say that turning fifty didn’t faze me, that I was committed to aging gracefully, accepting new limitations and jowls with resilience and joy. That, however, would be a giant lie.
I turned fifty in 2020, the year of the Great Plague. That meant I had way too much time to spend with my messy thoughts about life, aging, and the changes taking place within and without. In a last-ditch attempt to keep sane, I started keeping a handwritten journal. That journal turned into another. Both were packed away with the dishes and the tax files when we moved from Copenhagen to Berlin, and there they sat, unopened on my desk, while I adjusted to life in a new country. I worked on and finished It’s a Lot to Unpack, and still they sat gathering dust.
Sometimes, as a writer, you travel backward and so I decided to go digging, seeing if I could mine those pages for any written gold. There was a lot of nonsense. There was plenty of feeling sorry for myself, but there were also the seedlings of what ultimately became This is a Love Song, a collection of essays, thoughts, poems, lists, and more.
More than anything, This is a Love Song is a mixtape of life after fifty.
If you check it out, make sure you let me know what you think.
Dina Honour 