“If you could send a single sentence back to yourself at the busiest point of your life, what would it say?”

“Tell me about a midlife row — with a partner, sibling, friend, parent — that mattered.”

“Was there a year in midlife when you ran on too little sleep?”

“If you became a parent, what kind of parent did you turn out to be — at school gates, at the kitchen table, on a hard day?”