Love's Labour

Love's LabourCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780701188979 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times) 'This man could save your marriage' The Times 'Illuminating, beautiful . . . This is a special book, full of little epiphanies' Natasha Lunn, author of

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780701188979
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times)



'This man could save your marriage' The Times




'Illuminating, beautiful . . . This is a special book, full of little epiphanies' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love



Compelling new stories from the psychoanalyst's consulting room; on desire, heartbreak and learning how to love.




When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?




In the intimate space of the consulting room, we meet the woman who can't post her wedding invitations but then, decades later, can't decide whether to get divorced; the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins; and the man whose partner's death is almost too much to bear.




As an analyst, Grosz's unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick. As a writer, he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding.




The labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly, we find we are truly ready to love one another.



'This is a beautiful book' Nigella Lawson



'You will be better at love after you read this book' Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon



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