Ageing with attitude: How Lesley is blazing a new trail in life

She was enjoying her job as a management consultant but a change in career has Lesley Emin feeling as high as the tallest peaks in the west, she tells Lorna Siggins.

“I stepped onto a marble staircase with little steps on its very left edge....designed by Michelangelo in exquisite compact marble, reaching into the clouds in the land of sun worshippers.