'The party is far from over. But I'll go home anyway.' She is finally old enough. Old enough for comfortable underwear and for uncomfortable truths. She no longer laughs at every stupid joke. She knows where she doesn't belong and is freer than ever. Free to stay. Free to go. Sometimes she wishes she had been as old and as brave as she is now. But it doesn't help. You can only mature with time. She also had to be old enough for this book: Ildikó von Kürthy went into inner and outer states of emergency, summoned up a lot of courage, failed again and again, applied to be a top model, said goodbye to her parents' grave and met herself at night in New York. In this book, Ildikó von Kürthy celebrates the power of midlife, the miracle of the afternoon nap and the precious feeling that we are not alone with all our fears, ideas, doubts, painful farewells and the powerful simultaneity of light and shadow. Old enough is a book full of insights and confessions. It is a courageous and honest accompaniment for all those who are beyond midlife and are far from arriving. Biography Ildikó von Kürthy is a freelance journalist and lives in Hamburg. Her bestsellers have been sold more than five million times and translated into 21 languages. Her novel "Moonlight Tariff" was made into a film for the cinema. She became a mother for the second time in 2010.