The Course of Love
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Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Alain de Botton
About this listen
So many romances are focused on how two people come together and the hurdles they overcome, but what happens after you ride off into the sunset?
Penguin presents, the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Course of Love by Alain de Botton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Twenty years after his best-selling debut, Essays in Love, internationally acclaimed author Alain de Botton returns to fiction with a brilliant new novel about modern relationships.
What does it mean to live happily ever after?
At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next?
Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning. From the first thrill of lust to the joys and fears of real commitment to the deep problems that surface slowly over two shared lifetimes, this is the story of a marriage. It is the story of modern relationships and how to survive them.
Playful, wise and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is a delightful return to the novel by Alain de Botton, 20 years after his debut, Essays in Love.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-08-20
Exquisite
Exquisitely accurate! Helped me during a very tough time in of my life and enabled me to move forwards somewhat!
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- Anonymous User
- 25-07-17
Inspiring and meaningful story to understand love
Highly recommend for those who wants to understand love and relationship and wants to love and to be loved in a more mature and lasting ways!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-06-23
Everyone should read this.
Probably the most important book you’ll read about relationships and expectations. Alain de Botton writes the love story we need to hear, and is with that kind when delivering some hard hitting truths about interpersonal relationships.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-20
Loved it
I've got acquainted with the author by his videos on YouTube in which so much life wisdom is spoken with humor, compassion and love. This book covers quite similar topics, but applied to marriage. With no sugar coating over how complicated and twisted love relationships could be the book gives insights, guidance and hope. And it's funny and it's reasonable!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-03-18
Interesting & insightful
Loved the story, though would have enjoyed possible alternative endings. Sometimes a little saccharine and occasionally a touch didactic. But beautifully frank.
Found the narrator good, if a little quiet at times. Sadly I was downright irritated by the accent he adopts for Kirsten and other Scottish characters.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-03-22
Crash course on love
Very interesting read. It tackles with the evolution of love between partners and our conditional understanding of it through fictional example of one couples relationship.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-01-23
Practical and deep
Learning self awareness in love thru a case study
I like reading and practicing self awareness
First time in a “novel” format and I loved it.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-12-23
Beautifully written
Wonderful journey about love and all it's complexities. Written in a very honest and insightful way. Will listen to it again, for sure.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-10-17
A philosophical view of a normal marriage
Alain de Botton charmingly describes two ordinary people living ordinary lives while reflecting on the ups and downs of marriage. A witty but profound story at times.it puts emphasis on the normal and ordinary being what is special in our lives. A good listen/lesson. Well read.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-12-16
kinda worryingly true
sounds like life and for a 20 something makes me worry. very insightful and believe able
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