A wonderful insightful look at love in all its forms .Deep romantic love,,love in platonic forms family love.I really enjoyed the interviews woven in with the authors point of view.A book I will be recommending,really enjoyed.#netgalley#penguingeneraluk

"Love leaks in and out of all of our lives, every day, freely, cruelly and beautifully"

This is a collection of writers, therapists and experts experiences of love. How we find love, how do we sustain love and how to cope when we lose it. From Juno Dawson on understanding and accepting ourselves for who we are, Candice Carty-Wiliams on the value of loving friendships as a reliable support network to Lisa Taddeo on loss and a broken heart.

The most affecting piece that still stayed with me was from Lemn Sissay on growing to understand love as an adult after experiencing a childhood without it.He spoke to my core when he writes how "every single person wants to love and be loved" - ...... "All those different people moving through King's Cross Station each with their own stories, their own private hopes and disappointments and yearnings, all connected by a desire to love and be loved"

This book was enjoyable in itself but I feel that it would have read better as a collection of essays. The interview style was bitty and didn't flow and the interspersion of authors own experiences and comments didn't really add much to the readers experience. All in all a decent read but It has been done so many more times recently including the highly popular "Everything I Know About Love" By Dolly Alderton and has little new to contribute to the discussion of love.

An examination of love in many different forms, including friendship and familial relationships as well as romantic ones. I found the various interviews and points of view really interesting and I saw a lot of my self in these. I also learnt a lot of valid lessons and took a lot of notes of things to remember and work into my own relationships.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Say love and you automatically think of partnerships but there are many types of love.
Looking at different perspectives and types of relationships with friends, family and self love. How changing perspective makes a difference.

A fascinating insight into love, the different emotional types of love and how it affects us, from the crush to longing and many more feelings.
I especially liked the interviews Natasha Lunn had with various people
A good book to dip into
Thank you NetGalley
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I knew I was going to enjoy Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn – I’ve been a subscriber to her newsletter of the same name since it launched a few years ago – but I wasn’t prepared for just how moving the book was going to be.

It’s a beautiful, nuanced deep dive into love, and what it means, in all its forms: romantic love, yes, but also the love between parents and children, between siblings, and between friends. Natasha interviews different people (including Dolly Alderton, Diana Evans, and Esther Perel) about love and grief, and weaves her own personal stories of love and loss in between them. I highlighted about half the book in my Kindle, and its messages felt especially poignant after a year when we’ve all been separated from the people we love by the pandemic. This is definitely a book to add to your reading list this summer (and to come back to again and again in the years to come).

Conversation on Love by Natasha Lunn is a celebration of love in all its forms, with a wide variety of contributors each with a wide unique perspective shown in the form of inspiring interviews.

Interwoven between the contributors Lunn's own personal story is interwoven,
both in the form of love and loss In equal measures, I think this is very effective. It makes you consider how your own love (and loss) connects with this book.

This book was originally distributed through a newsletter. Which i belive some of the contributors were better that others.

The one main thing I disliked about this book was how many recaps there were throughout and at times it has a tendency to lean towards self help. And again only at times, it is not an easy read. But overall this book is does what it sets out to do, give you a wide variety of perspective on Love.

Is like to thank Netgallery and the publishers for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.

I find it very difficult to review non-fiction books so this was tricky for me. I enjoyed it definitely, but I found the ebook restricted the possibilities. I couldn’t connect with the stories and science because it felt clashed together. I guess my review is more about the layout than the content but it bothered me!

I raced through this book. I really enjoyed the 360-degree look at love and its many forms and how the author weaved through her own personal experience with lots of interesting viewpoints. It made me think about love in many new ways. I think so many people could benefit from reading this book.

A wonderful book to make you reflect on how people connect with each other and how love (in all its forms) can develop and change throughout a lifetime. This is essentially a collection of interviews, gathered from various prominent figures over the years, which were originally distributed through a newsletter. Natasha Lunn adds another layer by interweaving her own personal experience of love, loss, grief, and hope, which was very effective. Each interview was short, clearly formatted, and there were plenty of breaks to give time for reflection.

As soon as I saw Dolly Alderton had wrote a chapter of this book I knew I had to read it. I don't think I realised how each chapter would make me feel. Natasha Lunn explores three big themes: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? I found each authors thoughts on this so interesting and I am sure I will reread and reread this book. Highly recommend.

Ohhh WOW.

Conversations on Love was not at all what I was expecting. Not only does Natasha Lunn write beautifully about her own experiences, but she has selected an incredible cast of contributors whose experiences and insight encompass almost all facets of love, including those we often don't dare to talk about.

In this book and the stories of those included in it, I saw not only my own feelings, fears and experiences reflected, but I also recognised both the love and the trauma that many of those close to me have experienced in their lifetimes. I think it helps all of us to know that we are not alone in our feelings, but also that there is no one correct way to experience love.

Confronting love in all its messy forms is an intimidating premise and it takes incredible tact and skill to present it as broadly and as truthfully as Natasha Lunn has (in just 256 pages!!). I will be recommending this book to everyone, and I can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy so that I can highlight and sticky-tab it to my heart's content!

I didn’t know what to expect when I obtained this book to read. There are so many aspects of love which you don’t think about until you think about it. I enjoyed reading about different aspects of love and how many people had come to terms with losses and adjustment

A collection of various people’s recollections of finding, keeping and losing love and how they dealt with that. Some are more interesting and inspiring than others and they are interspersed with the author’s personal experiences of the subject. There are a few too many recaps though and sometimes it seems like a ‘stream of consciousness’ exercise.

This poignant collection by Natasha Lunn is as much a lesson in listening as it is a meditation on the inexhaustible subject of 'love'. Personally, while I found the transcripts of the diverse range of interviews about that Lunn includes interesting, it was in the reflections between each of these that this book was at its best. Lunn has a real skill for responding empathetically to her interviewees, but also extracts gentle universal lessons from them for her reader.

Intensely relatable! A quick enjoyable read reflecting on love in all its forms.

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it this much, but it is just relatable at many levels - the author interviews a really diverse set of people, all with many different perspectives on love, different stages and life experiences.

There is something for everyone across all stories, not just those which are closer to your experience. That’s the most compelling aspect of the book - whoever you are, you will find some wisdom.

This definitely exceeded my expectations. I for some reason expected the pink and fluffy, love is amazing type stuff. But its real, and raw, and just as much about grief as love. An excellently diverse bunch of people interviewed that every single person will be able to relate to one viewpoint, likely more. I like its bravery in tackling the difficult topics of loss, whether its miscarriage, divorce, widowhood etc. Similarly, I think it served as a healthy reminder that love is not just romantic. Its family, friends, parents, children as well as your partner,
A delightful read, particularly when we've been feeling disconnected from friends and family, this reconnects and makes you ponder your own relationships, that make your head and heart fill with joy and memories.

I really enjoyed this collection - it reads more like a long-form essay or newsletter than a book at times and I did find the frequent recaps on what we’d already learned to steer the tone a bit more towards self-help than I’d like but there are some fantastic contributors here and I loved the equal weighting given to such varied types of love. The author’s own story is woven through without dominating and some of the insights here really made me think. Not always an easy read but a really worthwhile one. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

In Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn explores three big themes: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?. This book is a collection of all equally-inspiring interviews that will remind you that love is fragile, and it's a thing worth fighting for. In between the interviews, we get Lunn’s personal stories of love and loss, including a miscarriage that left her feeling hopeless at times. I highlighted so many passages in the book, and found this one particularly interesting:

“When I was searching for love in my twenties, there seemed to be two types of people who were looking for romantic relationships: those who easily fell into them and were content in the spaces between when they were - albeit briefly - single. And those who found falling in love an impossible task, who couldn’t seem to find happiness on their own, but couldn’t get past the starting-block stage of a relationship either”.

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with:
Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly
Candice Carty-Williams on friendship
Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone
Dolly Alderton on vulnerability
Emily Nagoski on the science of sex
Diana Evans on parenthood
Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss
Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations
Stephen Grosz on accepting change
Roxane Gay on redefining romance
and many more

Exactly what the description of the book describes, a perfect, light-hearted and completely relatable read. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.