Paperback pick: Life After Life

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson (Black Swan, £7.99)

What if you had a chance to live your life again and again till you got it right?

This extraordinary book follows the story of Ursula Todd, born three times during a snowstorm in 1910, who lives out her life through various scenarios in Second World War London.

Stop doing, start being: how to reset and rebalance your life

Is your life bulging at the seams with doing and not enough being? Are you constantly acting and planning, bereft of stopping, resting and relaxing? Do you give, give, give and find it hard to receive? Anita Chaudhuri discovers if it’s possible to find a happier balance

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7 July 201918 February 2022

Stop doing, start being: how to reset and rebalance your life

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Escape to paradise: life on a Greek island

Ever dreamed of chucking in the 9-to-5 to go and live in your favourite holiday destination? Writer Jennifer Barclay did – here, she tells how she let go of the illusion of safety to discover true happiness

Psychologies

21 June 201618 February 2022

Escape to paradise: life on a Greek island

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Lessons for life from Elizabeth Gilbert

It’s 10 years since Elizabeth Gilbert wrote global bestseller ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Here, she talks to Psychologies editor Suzy Greaves about the hard-earned life lessons she now lives by

Psychologies

5 May 201618 February 2022

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