Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

by Natasha Lunn

Overview

“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...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593296585
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	34,175
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Natasha Lunn is the features director at RED magazine and the creator of a popular and acclaimed bimonthly email newsletter, Conversations on Love. She lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

11/29/2021

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. Agent: Carrie Plitt, Felicity Bryan Assoc. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

A gorgeous, richly layered book about all forms of love. You can pick it up and turn to any page - literally any - and find a gem to soothe and fortify your soul”
―Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times bestselling author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?

“Hopeful and uplifting... this deep dive into the human heart will expand and enrich your perspective on love”
―Evening Standard

“I underlined passages on almost every page of this wide-ranging, tender-hearted book”
―The Times, Books of the Year

“Uplifting... You'll laugh, cry and recommend it to your friends”
―Refinery29

“Wonderful”
―Julia Samuel, bestselling author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass

“This eclectic and heartwarming collection explores love in all its forms, from romantic and parental love to friendship and loss”
―Observer

“Conversations on Love made me laugh, shed tears, think deeply. I want every person I love to read this book”
―Dr Kathryn Mannix, Sunday Times bestselling author of With the End in Mind

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