Happy Ever After

Smart, engaging and funny… will make you question everything you think you know about what you want – Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women
Passionate, provocative… a manifesto for a better society * The Times *
One of the most rigorous articulations of the new mood of acceptance… a persuasive demolition of many of our cultural stories about how we ought to live – Oliver Burkeman * Guardian *
A very useful antidote to the pressures of modern living. Very few books change the way you think about yourself, but this is one of them. I would particularly recommend it to young adults with all these life choices ahead of them * Tablet *
Paul Dolan knows what makes people happy - and what doesn’t. Happy Ever After is illuminating, wise, profound. A magnificent achievement – Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge
A smart and irreverent look at the bad advice, lame instructions, and missing ingredients in society’s recipe for a happy life – Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
A splendid demonstration of how conventional aspirations can make us miserable – Richard Layard, author of Happiness
A timely warning that we need to question standard assumptions about what is good for individuals and society. Dolan makes a compelling case for putting people’s own perceptions of their wellbeing at the heart of policy making – Lord Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet Secretary

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE. He is an internationally renowned expert in human behaviour and happiness. Amongst various other roles, he wrote the questions that are being used to monitor national happiness in the UK and has advised many governments, charities and corporations on how to influence behaviour to improve wellbeing. His debut book, Happiness by Design, was a Sunday Times bestseller and dubbed ‘the book that will make you quit your job’.

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