This is a Romantic novel in the true sense, one interested in exploring how love can survive and thrive in the long term. Interwoven with their story and its challenges is an overlay of philosophy-an annotation and a guide to what we are reading. You experience, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter. They get married, they have children-but no long-term relationship is as simple as 'happily ever after.' The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. De Botton's essay 'Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person' (The New York Times, May 28, 2016), which draws from The Course of Love, was the #1 most emailed article for days. The long-awaited and beguiling second novel from Alain de Botton that tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership, from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. 'An engrossing tale that provides plenty of food for thought' (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.

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