Cherry Healey: ‘My forties are a hoot!’

‘[The sisters] witnessed people being shot, point blank range in front of them, and each of them witnessed and had to go through horrendous things, but it’s this bond between them that is so unbelievably powerful that saves them. It absolutely saves them, and they survive.’

‘It’s so pithy and full of positivity and hope. There is not a wasted word, and the word economy is perfect. The reason I don’t have a copy here is I’ve given it to my daughter, who’s just turned 13.’

‘[Doyle] goes through this huge journey, and the story is incredible. She’s always encouraging you to think. It’s not a preachy self-help book. She’s not pretending to be a guru as well… She stays really humble, and she wants to share her learnings with you.’

‘This book is really wonderful. Every page that I turn, I’m learning so many important things about my body because [perimenopause] is like the second puberty.’

‘Hicks describes what she’s doing as tapping into infinite intelligence. What they talk about is the law of attraction, and that is how to create your reality. So instead of just being a passenger seat in the bus, you’re driving the bus every single day.’