Candid and inspiring guide of a kind of how to value and to live chastity.

This book is updated version of the original publication 2006, when Dawn Eden was a convert to Christianity (Protestant). Since then she walked quite a way - she has become Catholic and even made vows to live as a celibate as a vocation.
So this book is a "Catholic" version of the original book.

The book is refreshingly honest and candid (even intellectually honest, which might be a rare nowadays). Dawn, a survivor of the sexual abuse, is not shy to write about how she experienced the searching of her value as a being in the arms of men. And how this not fulfilled her, as it was just a mutual abuse and/or chasing of an illusion, not the real love. But, in my opinion, this experience makes her a very good representant of the chaste life - she is not a long-life celibate, but a former rock music enthusiasist, journalist and agnostic. So why has chastity became so important for her?

Shortly: it is a way of love. And not just a way of better love for the future spouse (if there is any), but the way to love God and yourself (with the healthy self-love and self-value).

As for marriageability of the celibate people, this citation says it beautifully:
“That’s not true,” I responded. “My chances are better now than they’ve ever been, because before I was chaste, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. It’s only now that I’m truly ready for
marriage and have a clear vision of the kind of man I want for my husband. “I may be thirty-seven,” I concluded, “but in husband-seeking years, I’m only twenty-two."

I got some valuable insight from the book - one of the strongest point it that unmarried people may forget what does to be "like a child". Children don’t speculate and compare, they ebjoy the present moment without the added pressure of statuses, expectations and other qualifiers - they can enjoy the simple happiness of just being.
I will try that, too.

While the book (I have not read the original version) have a lot of pros, there are also several cons - like the book is a bit heavy, intellectual reading sometimes. Some things are better to say the simple way (and a lot of passages are just like that, simple and honest). I understand that with many citations from catechism and theological and other books the authoress aims for the clarity of meaning. But it also weakens the simple strength of her statements in my opinion.
I would also love to have more practical tips.

But these are jus minor issues when comparing the honest, personal and witty read this is.
Read it.