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  • Published: 5 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241584712
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

Roots of Happiness

100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert





A beautifully illustrated book from bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, Susie Dent, highlighting joyful and often unknown words and phrases from our language (and other languages from around the world).

Susie Dent, bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, is on a mission to find light in the deepest, darkest corners of our language.

It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and wide to unearth happy and uplifting words and phrases that, in some cases, have been long-forgotten and, in other cases, have only just been discovered.

Paired with beautiful illustrations, this is the perfect book to lift you out of your mubble fubbles (a slightly sad mood), make you grin like a gigglemug (someone who never stops smiling), and have you chortling (laughing) away in no time.

This joyous collection of 100 positive words will show readers young and old just how wonderful language can be - and how you can use your words to make the world a happier place.

  • Published: 5 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241584712
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Susie Dent

Susie Dent is an independent editor and translator who appears regularly in Countdown's 'dictionary corner'. She is the author of six editions of The Language Report, an annual guide to the new words and phrases that find their way into the English language. Her book on dialects, How to Talk like a Local, was published by Random House in 2010.

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