This is an absolutely incredible book, I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did, but boy oh boy this one will stay with me for a while. this is an ode to love and its many variants and manifestations in our daily lives: from falling in love to friendships to grief. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. An honest and sensitive exploration of Lunn’s own personal experiences mixed in with the universal highs, lows, aches and pains the human heart undergoes.

To find out what personal information we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy. born from lunn’s newsletter interviews, conversations on love expands on the vital concept of love in all its forms; romantic, platonic, familial, loss, grief; accompanying her questions about each subject with interviews from pop culture and literary figures. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The best definition of happiness is the ability to approach your life as this gorgeous, unfolding work of art that's always changing that never quite you expected to be, and then seeing that it's more beautiful than anything that's supposedly perfect and pristine. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

My 90 year old grandad loved it, my 28 year old friend loved it - people love love and this collection of thoughts on love is excellent. Lunn spends Conversations on Love exploring friendship, sex, loss and expectations, among a host of other subjects, to unearth new, fascinating and wise insights that may just help in your own life, too ― Penguin. een boek dat je, hoe je je ook voelt, volgens mij enkel in een nog betere gemoedstoestand kan brengen, geen handleiding hoe lief te hebben maar een hulde aan leven, aan accepteren, aan liefde in al haar vormen, gedaanten en daden, want wat we zoeken in een romantische relatie is vaak al elders aanwezig. It's the most important book I've read this year, and it may have changed the way I approach relationships forever ― Her.

I also enjoyed the exploration of love through different relationships and particularly found the conversations with Poorna Bell and Dolly Alderton insightful and relatable. You can pick it up and turn to any page - literally any - and find a gem to soothe and fortify your soul' Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times bestselling author of 'How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?

You can pick it up and turn to any page - literally any - and find a gem to soothe and fortify your soul’ Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times bestselling author of ‘How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? Lunn talks to people who have lost partners, who have lost the ability to walk, who have lost parents at a young age, and devastatingly - people who have lost children too.

It is how love – such a universal feeling – feels different for everybody and that there is no one true way to define it. Interviewing authors and experts as well as drawing on her own experience, Natasha Lunn guides us through the complexities of these three questions. Natasha blended the interview-style conversations with pieces on her own story from meeting her husband Dan, to miscarriages to her gorgeous friendships. The power of this book lies in its willingness to engage with love in the broadest sense: not merely the romantic kind, to which so many other books on relationships confine themselves. Following a series of interviews from a wide range of bestselling and incredible authors, Natasha Lunn explores romantic love, friendships, family, parenthood, sexuality and loss.