Essays In Love

"Witty, funny, sophisticated...full of wise and illuminating insights.”  -  P.J. Kavanagh, Spectator

 A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story - from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with startling clarity, as novelist and philosopher Alain de Botton explore young love and its emotions often felt but rarely understood. 

The work's genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we've all felt before but have perhaps never understood so well: it includes a chapter on the anxieties of when and how to say 'I love you' and another on the challenges of disagreeing with someone else's taste in shoes. Essays In Love is a contemporary classic from an author “who seems to have been born to write” (The Boston Globe). 

"Smart and ironic...The book’s success has much to do with its beautifully modelled sentences, its wry humour, and its unwavering deadpan respect for the reader's intelligence.”  -  Francine Prose, New Republic