What does it take to live alone in a world made for couples and families?

What happens when you discover you've hit middle age without a partner and children?

Is it a more expensive world to live in?

A more lonely world?

An unjust world because you're automatically positioned to be the carer in the family?

Join Donna Ward in conversation with Caroline Baum about her journey to dare to name the word - SPINSTER - and what the implications are for older women who live alone.

Donna Ward is the author of her memoir, She I Dare Not Name, and has been appointed by Assistant Minister for Health, Ged Kearney, to chair a reference group in Australia to capture different perspectives, from different demographics, on being an older single woman.

Caroline Baum is one of OWN NSW's Ambassadors. She is the author of Only: A Singular Memoir about being an only child, published in 2017. Her life-writing has also appeared in several anthologies including My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent. Rebellious Daughters. Life Sentences, her podcast about the practice of contemporary biography, is available on all major platforms. Caroline is the winner of the 2015 Hazel Rowley Award, and her journalism has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, and The Guardian.