{"product_id":"love-s-labour","title":"Love’s Labour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A work of genius… It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly’\u003c\/b\u003e India Knight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Left me feeling wiser and more open to life’ \u003c\/b\u003eOliver Burkeman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuminous and necessary stories from the psychoanalyst's consulting room; on desire, heartbreak and learning how to love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the intimate space of the consulting room, we meet the woman who can’t post her wedding invitations but then, decades later, can’t decide whether to get divorced; the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins; and the man whose partner’s death is almost too much to bear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an analyst, Grosz’s unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick. As a writer, he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly, we find we are truly ready to love one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*** A 'BEST BOOK OF 2025' IN \u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The poet laureate of human emotion’ \u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘This man could save your marriage’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stephen Grosz ... is one of the best at writing about psychoanalysis' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Powerful and compelling'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a beautiful book' \u003c\/b\u003eNigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54484648362328,"sku":"9780701188962","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780701188962_85dd8428-87cb-404b-9e64-16e97a954958.jpg?v=1778658352","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/love-s-labour","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}