For author Sam Baker, Birkenstocks, gallons of Monmouth coffee and a rescue cat called Sausage are all essentials in her midlife crisis survival kit.
Sam Baker

Sam Baker is a journalist, broadcaster and author, as well as former Editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Red magazines in the UK. She co-founded The Pool and has judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Costa novel award and the British Book Awards. She is the author of The Shift, and host of The Shift podcast. You can find Sam on Instagram here, and on Twitter here.
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