Emma Freud reveals how brain fog caused by menopause left her unable to remember the word ‘stairs’

Dr Gail Greendale led a study of almost 2,500 women in 2009 and concluded that levels of female hormones are the likely cause of memory difficulties just before the menopause begins – a stage known as perimenopausal. She said: ‘Sixty per cent of women state that they have memory problems during the menopause transition. ‘But … Read more

Artist Celia Paul loved Lucian Freud so passionately that it made her ill

BOOK OF THE WEEK Self-Portrait by Celia Paul (Cape £20, 216 pp) Just be glad you weren’t a young, innocent, impressionable female art student at the Slade in the 1970s. It was all too likely that you’d be spotted by Lucian Freud, who was a visiting tutor and used to prowl the corridors and refectory. … Read more