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The Pursuit of Happiness Author: Ruth Whippman

ISBN: 9780091959159 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 13 June 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.5 x 2.4 Description: A very funny debunking of our obsession with achieving happiness, which will appeal to readers of Bill Bryson, Louis Theroux and Pamela Duckerman.

Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder?

As your average cynical Brit, when Ruth Whippman moves to California, it seems to her that the American obsession with finding happiness is driving everyone crazy.

But soon she starts to get sucked in. She meditates and tries 'mindful dishwashing'. She attends a self-help course that promises total transformation (and learns that all her problems are her own fault). She visits a strange Nevada happiness dystopia (with one of the highest suicide rates in America), delves into the darker truths behind the influential 'science of happiness', and even ventures to Utah, where she learns God's personal secret to eternal bliss.

Ultimately she stumbles upon a more effective, less self-involved, less anxiety-inducing way to find contentment.

Fantastically fresh, funny and honest, this is an eye-opening look at wh...

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