Unstuck in Provence -The Courage to Start Over - a memoir At the age of 46, after years of single-motherhood and the unbearable feeling that life is going nowhere, Carolyn decides to get radically unstuck. After selling her home, giving away most of her belongings, putting her flagging business on hold and ending a destructive love affair, she takes her 12-year-old son, Billy, to live in Aix en Provence, France. If you've ever needed the inspiration or the courage to get unstuck - to shake off whatever it is in your life that's preventing you from being the woman you were destined to be - Unstuck in Provence is for you.