No More Silly Love Songs

From the first flirtatious text message to dodging insults in the divorce courts, via swooning, stalking and swearing undying devotion, this cheerful book about the horrors of love explains why the romantic idea of falling in love (and staying in love for ever) continues to seduce us, even in the face of experience.

Falling in love is a complicated, messy, mad endeavour - and staying in love is even worse. All too often our hopes end in heartbreak and our dreams in tatters, but there is a rational alternative to romantic despair. Drawing on her own experience as a psychoanalyst, and the combined wisdom of philosophers, poets, scientists and singers, Anouchka Grose offers some serious solutions to the conundrums of love.