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The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

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In The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read (and maybe a few you don’t), Philippa Perry offers a compassionate guide to building better relationships. Through insightful advice, she explores common pitfalls and provides practical tips for enhancing communication and understanding, making it a valuable read for anyone looking to improve their connections with loved ones.
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You might like this book if you enjoy practical advice on improving relationships, insights into human behaviour, and tips for better communication. It offers valuable wisdom for fostering healthier interactions with both loved ones and others.

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From the nation's favourite psychotherapist comes the next book of wisdom and advice for navigating all of your most important relationships.

Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections. Whether that's with family, partners, friends, colleagues or most importantly yourself, if you can get those relationships on a functional and even keel, then the other tricky stuff that life throws your way becomes easier to manage.

In this warm, practical and witty book, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling psychotherapist Philippa Perry shows you how to approach life's big problems.

How do you find and keep love? What can you do to manage conflict better? How can you get unstuck and cope with change and loss? What does it mean to you to be content? Are other people just annoying or are you the problem?

With a healthy dose of sanity, Philippa Perry's compassionate advice could help you become a happier, wiser person.

The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read (and maybe a few you don’t) includes some material adapted from the Ask Philippa columns in Observer Magazine.

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The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read (and maybe a few you don’t) by Philippa Perry is praised for its engaging and accessible approach to improving relationships. Readers appreciate Perry's mix of practical advice, relatable anecdotes, and psychological insights that make the content both helpful and enjoyable. Perry's warm and witty tone is frequently highlighted as a key strength, making complex topics easier to grasp.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529918434

Publisher: Cornerstone

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cornerstone Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 224

About the Author

PHILIPPA PERRY, artist and psychotherapist, is an agony aunt for Observer Magazine, a freelance writer, and a TV and radio presenter. Her No.1 Sunday Times bestselling book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read was published in 2019 and has been translated into over 40 languages. She has written two other books- Couch Fiction and How to Stay Sane. Lady Perry lives in London with her husband Sir Grayson and their cat The Honourable Kevin.

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