The course of love
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alain de Botton
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781501134258
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Married people; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Fiction
Description: We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. "The Course of Love" is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence.

How does love survive and thrive in the long term? In Edinburgh, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love, get married, have children. But this is their story after the first flush of infatuation. As Rabih and Kirsten reform their ideals under the pressures of an average existance, they discover that love is a skill that needs to be learned, and not just experienced.