The Course of Love Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook release of The Span of Love by Alain de Botton, go through by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

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In one of our great thinkers on modern life as well as the human condition – an unforgettable story of love and relationship from the writer of bestselling novel Essays in Love as well as The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life

‘The Span of Like probes the heart of marriage, its shifts and about The Course of Like squalls, its great experience, with such forensic tenderness. I laughed a whole lot, as well’ Deborah Moggach

‘Interesting, sympathetic, acutely perceptive… Which relaxing integrity in what de Botton has to state’ Guardian

‘Anyone who’s, has been, or would ever prefer to be, in a satisfying, successful relationship, would do well to read de Botton’ Irish Indie

‘He debunks the myth of the happily ever after with a painfully familiar, frequently hilarious detailing of petty quarrels, the casual extra-marital fling, the occasions of loneliness and the declining rate of recurrence of sex… It is not only hugely pleasurable but life enhancing as well’ Daily Mail

Modern love is certainly never easy. Culture is obsessed with stories of love, but what comes after happily ever after?

This is a love story with a notable difference. From dating to relationship, from having kids to having affairs, it follows the progress of a single ordinary relationship: tender, messy, hilarious, painful, and completely un-Romantic. It is a appreciate story for the modern world, chronicling the daily intimacies, the blazing rows, the limitless tiny gestures that define a life distributed between two different people. Moving and deeply insightful, The Span of Love offers us a screen into important truths about the nature of love.