Conversations on Love
Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
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4.4 • 27 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“This book might just change your life”
―Sunday Times
'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place”
―Stylist
After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?
In Conversations on Love she began to find the answers:
Dolly Alderton on vulnerability
Stephen Grosz on accepting change
Candice Carty-Williams on friendship
Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss
Diana Evans on parenthood
Emily Nagoski on the science of sex
Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone
Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations
Roxane Gay on redefining romance
and many more...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British journalist Lunn gets to the heart of love's complexities and rewards in her thought-provoking and heartfelt debut. "Although love is in many ways unknowable," she writes, "it is useful for us to try to define it." What follows is an enriching series of interviews with writers and thinkers (plucked from the author's newsletter of the same name) blended with moving personal stories from Lunn's own life. Believing love begins within oneself, philosopher Alain de Botton maintains "the capacity to say, ‘I could be alone,' is strangely one of the most important guarantees of one day being with somebody else in a happy way." Roxane Gay, in sharing how she's sustained romance with her long-term partner, Debbie Millman, emphasizes the importance of "recognizing that new isn't always better." Meanwhile, relationship therapist Esther Perel recommends committed couples conduct "a little annual summit" to keep things in check. Mining the heartbreak of a miscarriage Lunn suffered before having her daughter, she considers how loss can deepen one's ability to love: "the uncertainty love requires is not a problem... it is what makes it beautiful." While Lunn's subject matter is famously known to inspire clichés, these insightful conversations resist that impulse with their rawness and wry wisdom. Cynics and romantics alike will find lots to ponder.
