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Alain de Botton

Biography

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including ON LOVE, HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY, THE ART OF TRAVEL and THE COURSE OF LOVE. He lives in London where he founded The School of Life, an organization devoted to fostering emotional health and intelligence.

Alain de Botton

Books by Alain de Botton

by Alain de Botton - Fiction

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married and have children --- but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” THE COURSE OF LOVE is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life thereafter.