Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn
Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn
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Conversations on Love
Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

Author: Natasha Lunn

Narrator: Natasha Lunn, Various

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others

Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. 
 
Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.

Conversations on Love is narrated by Natasha Lunn, featuring Roxane Gay, Greg Wise, Lemn Sissay, Juno Dawson, Melanie Reid, Stephen Grosz, Mira Jacob, Ayisha Malik, Sarah Hepola, Susan Quilliam, Emily Nagoski, Susie Orbach, Lucy Kalanithi, Isabella Laughland and Ricky Nixon

About The Author

Natasha Lunn is the features director at RED magazine and the creator of a popular and acclaimed bimonthly email newsletter, Conversations on Love. She lives in London. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on January 31, 2024

i highly recommend reading this five hours into a six hour wait at an airport for an increasingly delayed plane, slowly feeling that overpriced-salad identical-not-very-bookish-bookstores busiest-starbucks-in-world-history layover rage give way to an incredibly irritating fondness for everyone you s......more

Goodreads review by daniella ❀ on May 21, 2022

if i could only recommend one book in my life, this is that one book......more

Goodreads review by elle on April 16, 2025

if you like everything you know about love, you will love this book. it manages to describe moments in life in the electrifying and beautiful way it’s meant to be described. this is an ode to love and its many variants and manifestations in our daily lives: from falling in love to friendships to grie......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on August 06, 2021

sometimes a book we don’t expect to wholeheartedly fall in love with comes into our lives at just the right time to provide us with some much needed introspection on everything we’ve been struggling with. I’ve made no secret of the fact that this year I’ve felt more at a loss with my life than I hav......more

Goodreads review by Joana on June 08, 2022

I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK and I will make no apologies for it. Will I start every conversation from now on with the prompts from this book? Yes. Will I quote from it to write my best friend's wedding speech? Of course. Will it be my number one reference for life? Is that even a question? Natasha Lu......more


Quotes

“A gorgeous, richly layered book about all forms of love. You can pick it up and turn to any page - literally any - and find a gem to soothe and fortify your soul”
―Pandora Sykes, Sunday Times bestselling author of How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?

“Hopeful and uplifting... this deep dive into the human heart will expand and enrich your perspective on love”
―Evening Standard

“I underlined passages on almost every page of this wide-ranging, tender-hearted book”
―The Times, Books of the Year

"This book is a love letter to love in all its forms. It will make you see that love is truly the main point of life. To connect, to grow and to learn more deeply about ourselves through the people that populate the tapestry of our time here. Either for a reason, season or a lifetime."
―Daisy Edgar-Jones

“Uplifting... You'll laugh, cry and recommend it to your friends”
―Refinery29

“Wonderful”
―Julia Samuel, bestselling author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass

“This eclectic and heartwarming collection explores love in all its forms, from romantic and parental love to friendship and loss”
―Observer

“Conversations on Love made me laugh, shed tears, think deeply. I want every person I love to read this book”
―Dr Kathryn Mannix, Sunday Times bestselling author of With the End in Mind