Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings
NATASHA LUNN
(VIKING, 320 PP, £14.99)
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Conversations on love’s 300-odd pages of rumination about what love is, how we find it and how we sustain it may seem at first like an overwhelmingly long counselling session – and there is a fair amount of repetition and theorising. Nevertheless a bracing realism wins through in this expansion of Red features director Natasha Lunn’s successful email newsletter, where for the past three years she has ­interviewed writers, philosophers and ­psychotherapists, Dolly Alderton, Alain de Botton, Philippa Perry, Esther Perel and Stephen Grosz among them.