About Life
Notes on staying grounded in unsettled times
$31.88
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
This book is about the most important lessons I have learned in my life …
Dr Maureen Gaffney has long been admired for her ability to combine rigorous psychological insight with clarity and real-world understanding. Now, in About Life, she has distilled the key insights of her career into an urgent book for the times we are living through.
In About Life, Dr Gaffney brings together research, a lifetime of observation and her own personal experience to explore t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844886920 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844886921 |
| Author: | Maureen Gaffney |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Sandycove |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Maureen Gaffney’s simple strategies for positive thinking can put the feel-good factor back into your life. * Irish Independent *
Maureen Gaffney
Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer, and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and has worked as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change. She has worked with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership and innovative and resilient work cultures. Among her clients have been multinational organizations in financial services and in the voluntary and community sectors.
She has served on numerous state and other boards and is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Maureen is also a popular columnist and broadcaster and an inspirational and authoritative speaker who has addressed audiences in Ireland, the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany, and Spain.
Her previous books Flourishing (2011) and Your One Wild and Precious Life (2021) were both No. 1 Irish bestsellers. Flourishing was the basis of a major two-part RTÉ TV documentary, and Your One Wild and Precious Life won the RTÉ Audience Choice Irish Book Award and was shortlisted for overall Irish Book of the Year in 2021.
She lives in Dublin with her husband, John. They have two grown-up children and five grandchildren.
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