Your Joyful Years Book Launch Party with Professor Joyce Harper

Join us for an evening of inspiration, connection, and celebration, as Professor Joyce Harper launches her latest book, Your Joyful Years: Empowering Good Health and Happiness Beyond Fifty, on Friday 20 March 2026.

This book is a gift to women around the world, created to support you to live your best life. Joyce interviewed 50 women over fifty who are thriving and brings together their wisdom on health and happiness.

In the book, Joyce explores the pillars of health: nutrition, exercise, sleep, mental health, and friendships and community and the pillars of happiness: hobbies, creativity, adventures and challenges, relaxation, time in nature, quality time alone, a sense of purpose and retirement, and sex and love.

Writing this book, and listening to these women’s stories, changed Joyce’s life. She hopes it will change yours too.

Come as you are. Bring your questions, your experience, and your curiosity. This event is a space for conversation, celebration, and dancing.

About the Author

Joyce Harper is a Professor of Reproductive Science at UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health. She has worked in fertility and women’s health for almost 40 years and is passionate about public education. Her podcast, Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me This?, is in the top ten per cent of podcasts globally. Your Joyful Years is the second book in her trilogy. Your Fertile Years was published in 2021 by Sheldon Press. Her final book will explore women’s experiences of death.

Home Page - joyceharper.com

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This is a hybrid event and pre-booking is essential. The event will take place at Gideon Schreier Lecture Theatre, Bentham House, 4–8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H 0EG.

The event will begin promptly at 18:00pm

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