Hector and the Search for Happiness
by François Lelord
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Pub Date 1 Apr 2009 | Archive Date 23 Sep 2015
Description
Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such a thing as the secret of true happiness.
Advance Praise
Provides a dollop of warm, fuzzy, feel-good escapism --Woman
Intelligently naïve --Marie Claire
Even the most aloof, the most detached reader will be won over by this book. --Cosmopolitan
A feel-good gem ... Francois Lelord has created a 21st-Century hero in kind-hearted psychiatrist Hector, who travels the globe to find out what makes people happy. --Good Housekeeping
A series of philosophical bonnes bouches ... their effect is unexpectedly cheering -- --The Independent
Intelligently naïve --Marie Claire
Even the most aloof, the most detached reader will be won over by this book. --Cosmopolitan
A feel-good gem ... Francois Lelord has created a 21st-Century hero in kind-hearted psychiatrist Hector, who travels the globe to find out what makes people happy. --Good Housekeeping
A series of philosophical bonnes bouches ... their effect is unexpectedly cheering -- --The Independent
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781906040239 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
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