Beat till stiff : a woman's recipe for living / Peta Mathias.

"Peta covers topics she considers important, naughty or personal, all with a bent towards life's many transformations. Some of the essays ... are scurrilous, many are funny and others autobiographical, but all are thoroughly entertaining."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261).

Why redheads have more fun -- How I stopped strangling my mother -- Letter to my much younger self -- Deactivating the amygdala -- Eat, sing, love -- My brush with mental illness -- Channelling Edith -- Tattooed lady -- How to buy hope -- How to control the universe with egg whites.

"Razor-witted, wise and just a touch scandalous, Beat till Stiff covers topics that Peta considers important, entertaining, naughty or personal. With chapters on why redheads have more fun, how egg whites provide a metaphor for living and how Peta stopped strangling her mother, the eagerly awaited follow-up to Can We Help it if We're Fabulous? and Just in Time to be too Late, is a book about the universal themes that affect all women."--Publisher's description.