Yellow Kite snaps up Rowe-Ham’s Owning your Menopause

Yellow Kite has signed an exercise and lifestyle fitness book to help women through perimenopause and beyond by Kate Rowe-Ham, fitness coach and founder of Owning Your Menopause app.

Nicky Ross, editorial director, acquired world rights directly from the author to Owning Your Menopause: Fitter, Calmer, Stronger in 30 Days. The publisher says it promises to “transform how women care for themselves at what can be a very challenging transition". It will publish 28th December 2023.

Its description goes on: “Despite being a personal trainer, Rowe-Ham found herself totally derailed in her early 40s as perimenopause started. Her usual strategies to stay well weren’t working and HRT wasn’t the magic bullet she hoped it would be. Only when she started changing the way she exercised, what she ate and drank, and how she looked after herself, did she start to feel better... and now, a few years down the line she feels more energised than ever before.”

The book will include a 30-day plan, with movement and exercise goals, meal plans and links to online training sessions on the author’s digital platform which can be accessed through QR codes embedded in the book.

Ross said: “I first started following Kate on Instagram through her brilliant Owning Your Menopause account. There are lots of great books on menopause on the market, which are changing the conversation, but Kate’s message that there are simple changes you can make to manage your own ‘symptoms’ felt really empowering and positive.”

Rowe-Ham commented: “Whatever your relationship with your body, movement and exercise has been up until now, I wanted to show that it’s never too late to make changes. Like all of life’s transitions, menopause can be an incredible opportunity to re-assess and make a few sustainable changes which will not only improve how you feel physically and mentally but also equip you with fundamental tools so that you can be fit, active and confident for the next half of your life.”