Her metaphors are beautiful (see my quote choice below) and the questions she asks always unlocks incredible wisdom - all around topics that people are usually too afraid to delve into. I wish I could send this book back in time and read it to every past version of myself, to teach her all the hopeful and expansive possibilities of love. In this aspect, kudos has to be given to Lunn as she has bled her feelings on the page with such purity that her pain feels visceral.

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. The book is organised in 3 parts, how do we find love, how do we sustain love and how do we survive losing love? I found many of the ideas and stories relatable and many made me question what I think and feel about love. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Natasha interviews a wide range of contemporary voices and they offer discussion on everything from platonic love, familial love, motherhood and grief. I learnt a lot about the different types of love as I read through each chapter, and I read many things in this book that made me pause for a moment and consider how it might apply to me.

I've never felt such growth after reading a book - I felt seen, challenged, understood, provoked and soothed. The real-life love stories will leave you feeling hopeful and seen, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships.conversations on love is a welcome breath of fresh air to the genre, carrying lessons that I know I will take with me into the future. THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant.

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. This is one of those books that is an essential for any bookshelf or bedside table so that you can read it at your own leisure. In addition to miscarriage, there are other difficult themes and conversations in this book, and whilst they are handled gently and sensitively, through Lunn’s writing and interview style, I will include trigger warnings for bereavement, miscarriage and difficulty to conceive. will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter 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. Whilst I appreciated hearing from different voices and felt this added another layer to the book…I felt that a lot of the perspectives were quite similar.Sometimes you read a book that just makes you want to take the author's hands, look them in the eye and say thank you. 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. I really enjoyed this collection - it reads more like a long-form essay or newsletter than a book at times and I did find the frequent recaps on what we’d already learned to steer the tone a bit more towards self-help.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This essential read could change your perspective on relationships, offering reassurance and hope - CultureWhisper You may also be interested in.It covers all the different kinds of love that we might experience in our lives and all of the different outcomes that go along with it, friendship, marriage, spurned lovers, etc. lunn’s own reflections on precious relationship breakdowns, her miscarriage and the impact on her marriage also carry significant weight and questions. 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? Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you that love is fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful; a thing always worth fighting for.