- Published: 15 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781784702632
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
The Rough Patch
Midlife and the Art of Living Together
- Published: 15 January 2019
- ISBN: 9781784702632
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
In this beautifully reasoned, highly personal, and very generous book of advice and analysis, Daphne de Marneffe proposes that the rough patch that occurs in most midlife relationships should be cherished. For those who can endure it, it can generate a new reciprocity, deepening the very intimacies it threatened to break. De Marneffe writes with poetry, wit, and compassion about the necessity of struggle in the quest for true love. Anyone in any relationship at any stage of life could stand to learn from the wisdom in these pages.
Andrew Solomon
Bravo for this personable, wise, radical and optimistic approach to the often seismic stresses of marriage and midlife, by a leading clinical psychologist who uses fascinating case studies to illuminate her advice about how to deal with the significant challenges which often arise in relationships once we’re in our forties and fifties.
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