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The View from Ninety: Reflections on How to Live a Long, Contented Life
Author(s): Charles Handy (Author)
- Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
- Publication Date: December 2, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1529154804
- ISBN-13: 9781529154801
Book Description
In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us? How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? Clear-eyed and optimistic by turns, he sets out the questions that everyone needs to ask themselves in the course of their lives, and points us in the direction of the answers.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A wise and gentle commentator ―
The GuardianOffers wit, wisdom and gratitude. […] Charles Handy’s 19th and last book is not his heftiest. But it may be, in some important respects, his weightiest. These final breaths of wisdom sacrifice little of Handy’s wit, charm and storytelling skill. — Andrew Hill ―
Financial TimesRightly treasured as Charles Handy’s books are, his most important lesson may be his life. This collection of short reflections on life, work and people… reflects old age, but its spirit doesn’t. Handy’s later books are only indirectly about business… but paradoxically that is exactly why any business leader would profit from reading it. Sharp insights abound. — Simon Caulkin ―
Director MagazineA thought-provoking recap of some of the prescient and radical ideas that marked his career, while also offering his touching final insights into life and death. ―
Financial Times, Best Books of 2025About the Author
Charles Handy was a writer, broadcaster and teacher, as well as a former oil executive, an economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George’s House in Windsor Castle and the chairman of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He was born in Co. Kildare in Ireland, the son of an archdeacon, and educated in Ireland, England (Oxford University) and the USA (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). His many books include The Empty Raincoat, Gods of Management, The Second Curve and 21 Letters.
Charles Handy died on 13 December 2024 at the age of 92. The View from Ninety, his final book, draws on articles first published in The Idler magazine.
