{"product_id":"how-to-be-hopeful","title":"How to Be Hopeful","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Happiness is a thing that must be \u003ci\u003edone \u003c\/i\u003eover and over and over again. Like laundry. And sex. It’s not a thing you \u003ci\u003eare \u003c\/i\u003e- it’s a thing you \u003ci\u003edo.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot getting enough sleep, doomscrolling on your phone, and feeling acid anxiety every time you watch the news? You’re not alone. One morning, Caitlin Moran lay in bed and realised: she had finally reached Peak Despair. The point where, in books and movies, the heroine decides to move to a remote farmhouse, walk an ancient, 600-mile pathway, or adopt a baby hare. The moment where someone \u003ci\u003egoes on a quest \u003c\/i\u003eto find …\u003ci\u003e hope.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this, this is \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003ethat kind of book. Caitlin\u003ci\u003e tried \u003c\/i\u003e— but it turns out remote Welsh farmhouses are \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003eexpensive. No-one with a job can walk 600 miles. And it’s incredibly hard to get access to baby hares in Crouch End.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so, Caitlin decides instead to go on a \u003ci\u003edomestic \u003c\/i\u003equest. To see if you can stay in the same house, in the same neighbourhood, but feel better about the frantic modern world by trying to make better \u003ci\u003edays. \u003c\/i\u003eLeaving social media, eschewing 24\/7 news for local newspapers, sitting on buses without headphones, and listening to what people are \u003ci\u003ereally \u003c\/i\u003esaying. Picking litter, donating blood, rewilding a garden and, the hardest thing of all — learning to fall back in love with the world again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of a year, Caitlin finds that life can be radically transformed when you rebel against the news cycle and algorithms that \u003ci\u003ewant \u003c\/i\u003eto keep us angry, adrenalised, and anxious. You can’t change the world — but you can change your days. And, once you’ve changed your days, maybe you \u003ci\u003ecould \u003c\/i\u003echange the world. Just a little bit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing hopeful is a decision. \u003ci\u003eHow To Be Hopeful \u003c\/i\u003eis the diary of how one person made that change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56982939533656,"sku":"9781529974799","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529974799.jpg?v=1778787924","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/how-to-be-hopeful","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}