# The Course of Love

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- Book: [The Course of Love](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton/the-course-of-love) ([The Course of Love.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton/the-course-of-love.md))
- Authors: [Alain de Botton](https://www.bookquiver.com/alain-de-botton)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-213-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2017-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from having kids to having affairs, it follows the progress of a single ordinary relationship: tender, messy, hilarious, painful, and entirely un-Romantic. It is a love story for the modern world, chronicling the daily intimacies, the blazing rows, the endless tiny gestures that make up a life shared between two people. Moving and deeply insightful, The Course of Love offers us a window into essential truths about the nature of love.