- Published: 28 April 2016
- ISBN: 9780241962121
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
The Course of Love
An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love
- Published: 28 April 2016
- ISBN: 9780241962121
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Curious, humorous and dazzling... It contains more human interest than most fiction
John Updike on 'How Proust Can Change Your Life'
Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence
Observer on The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton's gift is to prompt us to think about how we live
Jeanette Winterson
Anyone who is, has been, or would ever like to be, in a satisfying, successful relationship, would do well to read de Botton. A brave couple might even read it together
Irish Independent
Engaging, sympathetic, meticulous, acutely perceptive...There's a refreshing honesty in what De Botton has to say
The Guardian
His prose is lovely: clear, gently persuasive, light of touch
Observer on Religion for Atheists
Publisher's description. Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Think this is the end of the story? It's only the beginning. With his trademark warmth and wit, Alain de Botton explores modern relationships with a novel that asks what it truly means to love and to be loved.
Penguin
Thought-provoking... [a] worldly wise romance
Mail on Sunday
Well-observed and imbued with a tenderness that feels authentic and uncynical. It may even save some marriages
Evening Standard