In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Another suggests he visits a medium, a middle-aged woman who lives in Parsons Green who seems able to converse with Iris’s spirit.

In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Roger Alton * The Daily Mail * [Ben] does a quite astonishing job… finding incredible meaning in Iris’s short life and the connection with nature he experienced after her sudden death. This book is a sad but insightful read demonstrating his journey accepting the loss of his daughter.

Goldsmith moves nimbly and passionately between the topics of ecology, politics, sociology and spirituality. Unfortunately, after this section, I felt that I was reading the words rather than taking in what was being described. Ben was a Director at DEFRA for five years, successfully advocating for a series of ground-breaking environmental restoration policies during his tenure, including the new Environmental Land Management scheme, the Nature for Climate Fund and the Species Reintroductions task force. Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original.

Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsense wisdom back to the subject he started his career covering: relationships. The majority of the book focuses on his rewilding plans and restoring as many species back into the natural environs as a means of spiritual and physical healing.In Love Is Not Enough, Mark’s first Audible Original, you’ll follow five real people over the course of six months as they navigate f--ked up romantic situations, ranging from dating app addiction to marital affairs to absurd fantasies. Med dette lille unntaket: En bok meget vel verd å lese, den gir mye til naturelskere, til oss som vet lite om å gjenreise naturen, om sorg, om søken etter mening, og om det fins en gud. Of course, the two elements of the book – the healing of nature and the healing of the self – are intertwined.