“A profound meditation on love and healing. Powerful and important. Essential reading.”
– Tara Westover, author of Educated

“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

“Grosz’s transfixing narratives will increase your openness to and aptitude for the greatest of all emotions: you will be better at love after you read this book.”
Andrew Solomon
author of The Noonday Demon

“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

“Stephen Grosz is a beautiful writer, a clear, compelling thinker, an observant, wise, and deeply empathetic human being.”
— Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy

“It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly.”
— India Knight, author of Home

“Chilling, moving, unforgettable… what a privilege it is for the reader to catch a glimpse of this process.”
— The Guardian

“A compressed, brilliant distillation of forty 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