Lorna Martin

La vida amorosa de Lorna es un desastre: sale con un hombre casado, sufre por ser «la otra» y acaba de enterarse de que él se ha conseguido una segunda amante... Las amigas de Lorna la quieren, pero están hasta las narices de sus lamentos y la emplazan a que vea a un psicólogo. Así empieza un año de peripecias y situaciones desopilantes -en la consulta y fuera de ella-, narradas con frescura y complicidad.

Lorna Martins life is in chaos and she needs to make some big changes. After all, there must be a reason she keeps chasing after the wrong men, making toe-curling blunders at work and generally failing to keep her life on track. Egged on by her friends, she signs up for the talking cure: a year of therapy with the frosty Dr J. Along the way, she catches sight of the holy grail of true love in the shape of the gorgeous Dr McDreamy. But will Lorna find her own happy ending? With support (and not a little exasperation) from her friends and long-suffering sister, some serious setting-the-world-to-rights sessions involving too many bottles of wine, and the help of her inscrutable shrink, Lorna feels she might be getting her life together.Revealing, intimate and highly entertaining, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a must-read for any woman who loves the idea of being in love and worries about settling for second best.

Journalist Lorna Martin had always thought that therapy was an outrageous con, a fraud designed for people to whine about their weight/ self-esteem/ alcohol/ commitment problem while blaming their emotionally absent father and/or overly critical mother. If you have a problem, Martin believed, you just deal with itpray, get drunk, pop some pills, or listen to ABBA. But after yet another disastrous relationship and an embarrassing misstep at work, plus a spate of uncontrollable sobbing, Martin was running out of solutions for dealing with it. In an uncharacteristic move, she sat down on the couch of Dr. J., where she spent the next year talking, listening, and learning more than she ever expected. The result, Girl on the Couch, is Martins warm, funny, and intimate diary of her voyage into the world of therapywhat she calls the strangest journey of my lifeand the incredible discoveries she made along the way.