a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.
Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh perspective, investigating the feelings of human beings through time, from the Vikings and Aztecs to contemporary hypochondriacs, and the problems of ordinary life. "Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade" Maggie Gee, >Daily Telegraph<. From the author of >A History of French Passions< and >The French<. Minerva.
