Postmenopause is usually described as an aftermath. The interesting part is over, the periods have stopped, and the rest gets filed under ageing.

That is a strange way to talk about a stage that can last several decades. Bones, heart, muscle, sleep, mood, memory, sexual wellbeing and continence all still matter, and most women are sent into those years with a brief warning about calcium and very little else.

The years after the transition deserve the same attention the transition got. This final book covers what changes, what genuinely protects long-term health, which screening is worth keeping up, and which symptoms should never be written off as simply getting older.

You may have arrived here after years of trying to work out whether what you felt was hormonal, psychological, medical or circumstantial. This is the part where that work pays off.

Life After Menopause is Book Eight and the final volume in The Menopause Clarity Series.