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By (author) Grosz Stephen
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‘The poet laureate of human emotion’
ELIZABETH DAY
‘Left me feeling wiser and more open to life’
OLIVER BURKEMAN
‘A work of genius’
INDIA KNIGHT
Change the way you think about love.
When it comes to relationships, why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on more than forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz shows us how we can be better at love.
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 ex-nun whose unconscious fear of pregnancy drove her into the convent; and the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins. Compelling, revealing and full of wisdom, Love’s Labour shows us that only when we see ourselves and our world clearly are we truly ready to love one another.
‘Powerful and compelling’
GUARDIAN
‘This is a beautiful book’
NIGELLA LAWSON
‘This man could save your marriage’
SUNDAY TIMES
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‘An
exceptional writer and psychoanalyst … the
poet laureate of human emotion’
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”A
profound meditation on love and healing.
Powerful and important. Essential reading”
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‘Love really is a labour: that”s something they don”t tell you in the fairy stories or the reality shows.
But
Stephen Grosz knows a lot about the pain and joy of human relationships and in this book he generously shares his wisdom with the rest of us’
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Full of moments of revelation that stay with you forever …
It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly”
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‘Reading Stephen Grosz is
a deep sort of pleasure, and this book”s
movingly told true stories left me feeling wiser and more open to life’
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Someone whose work I’ve long admired… Love’s Labour, is a collection of true stories about love and the ways we struggle to find and sustain it
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‘This is
a special book, full of little epiphanies. Grosz combines
illuminating stories from therapy with
such beautiful writing that you forget these people are his patients and not fictional characters. He reminds us how complex love is, how much it requires of us, and how many times we can misunderstand each other – and ourselves – in the process. It”s
a love story about the relationship between lovers, between a therapist and patient, and between us all, if we are brave enough to attempt it’
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‘Grosz’s transfixing stories will increase your openness to and aptitude for the greatest of all emotions:
you will be better at love after you read this book’
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Stephen Grosz is a beautiful writer, a clear, compelling thinker, an observant, wise, and deeply empathetic human being”
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Full of thought prompts and ideas that resonate long after you finish the book … It’s a
strange, thoughtful, deeply compelling book”
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”This is a beautiful book”
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”Love’s Labour is
a hopeful book and all the more convincingly so because it promises relatively small shifts rather than miraculous recoveries”
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”A compressed, brilliant distillation of 40 years of clinical experience and deep thought,
written to last. Grosz conveys what he knows, in all its richness, in as pithy and digestible form as possible”
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”Chilling, moving, unforgettabl
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