On Getting Better by Adam Phillips jim norton modern classics

modern classics

With his uncle Bilbo having mysteriously disappeared

I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence' Douglas Field

menacing letters

On Getting Better by Adam Phillips jim norton modern classicsTo talk about getting better about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because of the sentences we have read.) How can we talk differently about how we might want to change, knowing that all change