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An investigation of love in all its forms featuring conversations withLisa Taddeo Esther Perel Emily Nagoski Kate Bowler Alain de Botton Stephen Grosz Roxane Gay and others
Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love the older she got the more she had to acknowledge her friends relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth and the more she learned about her parents grandparents work colleagues and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive transformative consuming emotion One night during the months she found this realization settling over her she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook conversations on love In that moment Lunn understood that she didnt want advice about love she wasnt looking for the answers or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid wideranging sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often dont make it into our everyday discussions of marriage sibling relationships friendships or mother/daughter bonds Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them in all of its messiness and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees It turns out that Lunn wasnt the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love
Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most soughafter experts on love journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about loveHow do we find love How do we sustain it And how do we survive when we lose itto deliver a book that is a solace a beacon a call to arms a toolkit The reallife love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships Above all Conversations on Love will remind you what love is fragile sturdy mundane beautiful always worth fighting for
Conversations on Love is narrated byNatasha Lunn featuring Roxane Gay Greg Wise Lemn Sissay Juno Dawson Melanie Reid Stephen Grosz Mira Jacob Ayisha Malik Sarah Hepola Susan Quilliam Emily Nagoski Susie Orbach Lucy Kalanithi Isabella Laughland and Ricky Nixon
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