appy to follow her own script

Author Sheila O’Flanagan got a shock when she started the menopause at 35 but a year later, her first book was published and she hasn’t looked back, says Margaret Jennings.

MOST of the protagonists in Sheila O’Flanagan’s books are between the ages of 25 and 45, but any of them would have been suitably appalled at what happened to their creator as a young woman.

After a year of physical symptoms, and at age 35, it was confirmed by her doctor that Sheila was going through the menopause.