Love’s Labour

‘An exceptional writer and psychoanalyst … the poet laureate of human emotion’ * Elizabeth Day, author of How to Fail * 'Full of moments of revelation that stay with you forever ... It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly' * India Knight, author of Home * Chilling, moving, unforgettably… what a privilege it is for the reader to catch a glimpse of this process * Guardian * ‘Reading Stephen Grosz is a deep sort of pleasure, and this book's movingly told true stories left me feeling wiser and more open to life’ * Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks * Love’s Labour is a hopeful book and all the more convincingly so because it promises relatively small shifts rather than miraculous recoveries * The Times * ‘Love really is a labour: that's something they don't tell you in the fairy stories or the reality shows. But Stephen Grosz knows a lot about the pain and joy of human relationships and in this book he generously shares his wisdom with the rest of us’ * Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud * 'This is a beautiful book' * Nigella Lawson * 'Full of thought prompts and ideas that resonate long after you finish the book ... It’s a strange, thoughtful, deeply compelling book' * Pandora Sykes * A compressed, brilliant distillation of 40 years of clinical experience and deep thought, written to last. Grosz conveys what he knows, in all its richness, in as pithy and digestible form as possible * Financial Times * 'Stephen Grosz is a beautiful writer, a clear, compelling thinker, an observant, wise, and deeply empathetic human being' * Nick Hornby, author of Funny Girl *