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  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241302019
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00

The Key to Happiness

How to Find Purpose by Unlocking the Secrets of the World's Happiest People




A practical guide to what makes us happy from the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge.

**From the author of the international bestseller The Little Book of Hygge ­- over one million copies sold**

Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness

Meik Wiking is the CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. His job is to travel around the world, seeking out the happiest people and uncovering what they do differently. In The Little Book of Lykke, he reveals what he has found.

This captivating read features case studies from Bhutan to Australia, South Korea to Canada, France to Denmark, taking the reader on a happiness treasure hunt. Written in the same warm tone as Meik's phenomenal bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, this easy-to-understand book will change the way you think about how you relate to your neighbours, the rituals around cooking and eating dinner, and when to book your next holiday - and is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

'It is a happy book about happiness, written with a twinkle and packaged with Danish style' (John Helliwell, Economist and Editor of the World Happiness Report)

  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241302019
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Meik Wiking

Meik Wiking founded the world's first Happiness Research Institute in 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark and is a New York Times and Sunday Times Bestselling author. Meik has been called The Indiana Jones of Smiles and probably the World's Happiest Man by The Times.

He is the author of three globally bestselling books which have sold over 2 million copies worldwide: The Little Book of Hygge, The Little Book of Lykke and The Art of Making Memories.

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