{"product_id":"loves-labour-how-we-break-make-the-bonds-of-love","title":"Love's Labour: How We Break \u0026 Make the Bonds of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eIlluminating, beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eThis is a special book, full of little epiphanies\u003c\/b\u003e' Natasha Lunn, author of \u003ci\u003eConversations on Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Examined Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the bestselling debut from psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, was about learning how to live; his new book, \u003ci\u003eLove's Labour\u003c\/i\u003e, is about learning how to love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'You will be better at love after you read this book\u003c\/b\u003e' Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Examined Life\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Grosz's vignettes are so brilliantly put together that they read like pieces of bare, illuminating fiction. . . . It is this combination of tenacious detective work, remarkable compassion and sheer, unending curiosity for the oddities of the human heart that makes these stories utterly captivating' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Writing with sympathy and insight, Grosz distils years of work into a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'I was enthralled . . . profound and moving, large ideas packed into a slim volume' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Love's Labour: How We Break \u0026 Make the Bonds of Love","offer_id":44870670516421,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-7011-8897-9.jpg?v=1751512180","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/loves-labour-how-we-break-make-the-bonds-of-love","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}