On Wanting To Change

From The Uk's Foremost Literary Psychoanalyst, A Dazzling New Book On The Universal Urge To Change Our Lives. We Live In A World In Which We Are Invited To Change - To Become Our Best Selves, Through Politics, Or Fitness, Or Diet, Or Therapy. We Change All The Time - Growing Older And Older - And How We Think About Change Changes Over Time Too. We Want To Think Of Our Lives As Progress Myths - As Narratives Of Positive Personal Growth - At The Same Time As We Inevitably Age And Suffer Setbacks. So There Are The Stories We Tell About Change, And There Are The Changes We Actually Make - And They Don't Always Go, Or Come, Together . . . This Sparkling Book Is About That Fact.