Beat Till Stiff: A Womans Recipe for Living

Beating egg whites till theyre stiff is a metaphor for life - just when you thought your existence would never be more than flaccid transparent snot, something happens to turn it into tight white light.Once a counsellor, nurse and cook and now a writer, television presenter and all-round fabulous woman, Peta Mathias is the queen of transformation.- In Beat Till Stiff, Peta shares lessons learnt in her pilgrimage through life, such as how she stopped strangling her mother, why redheads- have more fun, and whether having an orgasm really makes a difference to sex, procreation or world peace.In her bestselling guide to womanhood Can We Help it if Were Fabulous?, Peta shared with us her thoughts on being a woman.- In Just in Time to be Too Late, she turned her attention to what it means to be a man in the twenty-first century.- Now, in Beat Till Stiff, Peta covers topics she considers important, naughty or personal, all with a bent towards lifes many transformations.- Some of the essays in Beat Till Stiff are scurrilous, many are funny and others autobiographical, but all are thoroughly entertaining.