LOVE S LABOUR

A work of genius It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly India Knight Left me feeling wiser and more open to life Oliver BurkemanLuminous and necessary stories from the psychoanalyst s consulting room on desire heartbreak and learning how to love When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients Stephen Grosz asks what gets in the way of our falling in love And what must we do to stay there 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 friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins and the man whose partner s death is almost too much to bear As an analyst Grosz s unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick As a writer he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding The labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly we find we are truly ready to love one another This is a beautiful book Nigella Lawson This man could save your marriage Sunday Times Stephen Grosz is one of the best at