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The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig
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Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive.

It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry, and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.

The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations celebrate the ever-changing wonder of living. This is for when we need the wisdom of a friend or a reminder we can always nurture inner strength and hope, even in our busy world.

A book of timeless comfort for modern minds.

©2021 Matt Haig (P)2021 Canongate Books Ltd Biographies & Memoirs Mental Health Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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I loved this. Brilliant and insightful encouragement. Thank you, Matt, for giving us something we can breathe in and out with relative ease.

The Hope found in Uncertainty

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This book is a hug. It is a balm for the weary soul, an encouraging word to the broken spirit. To love and accept yourself is something you often learn after much pain. This book tells you it is ok to be you. That in itself is lifesaving.

A beautifully narrated guide to self-forgiveness

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The author Matt Haig has managed to have published what would be, for anyone else, a series of dot notes and ramblings in a diary. This includes favourite songs, reasons why Ferris Bueller was a great movie, movies to see when depressed to uplift one's self (including any Mission Impossible movie because of watching Tom Cruise contort himself), interspersed with tiny bits of 'wisdom' which were similar to quotes that might be found on social media platforms.

Haig writes of the depressed times that he has gone through in the past, almost as justification for the writings in the book and certainly, there may be some wisdom in there for some readers. However, I feel that most of it caters for those with limited attention and looking for quick one liners.

Akin to ramblings from a diary

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