- Published: 3 January 2017
- ISBN: 9780241962138
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $22.99
The Course of Love
An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love
- Published: 3 January 2017
- ISBN: 9780241962138
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $22.99
Publisher's description. Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Think this is the end of the story? It's only the beginning. With his trademark warmth and wit, Alain de Botton explores modern relationships with a novel that asks what it truly means to love and to be loved.
Penguin
He's completely on the money with the minutiae of marital life and every note rings uncomfortably true. The story is told with great wit and affection... de Botton knows his stuff and the book builds into a truly wonderful and positive analysis of a successful lifelong partnership. It should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating tying the knot.
Daily Mail
Engaging, meticulous, acutely perceptive... There's a refreshing honesty in what De Botton has to say
Guardian
One passage was so spot-on that I read it aloud to my husband... De Botton appreciates, as few writers do, the miracle and subtlety of the so-called ordinary
The Times
Well-observed and imbued with a tenderness that feels authentic and uncynical... It may even save some marriages.
Evening Standard
[A] worldly wise romance
Mail on Sunday
A complete delight
Amy Bloom, author of 'Lucky us'