Author: Stephen Grosz

Dating, relationships, living together & marriage

Published on 4 September 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto & Windus) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 208 pages
223 x 143 x 23 | 322g

A work of genius It would not BE humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly India KnightLuminous and necessary stories from the psychoanalyst’s consulting room; on desire, heartbreak and learning how to love.

When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?In the intimate space of the consulting room, we meet the woman who cant post her wedding invitations but then, decades later, cant decide whether to get divorced; the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins; and the man whose partners death is almost too much to bear.

As an analyst, Groszs unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick. As a writer, he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding.

The labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly, we find we are truly ready to love one another.

‘This is a beautiful book’ Nigella LawsonThis man could save your marriage Sunday Times’Stephen Grosz … is one of the best at writing about psychoanalysis’ The Times’Powerful and compelling’ Guardian