Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking, Michael Harding

Winner of the Irish Book Awards' National Book Tokens' Non-Fiction Book of the Year and The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award, a candid memoir of a middle-aged man on the verge of disaster—and how love brings him back from the brink

Michael Harding gives a brutally honest and beautifully written account of his journey through life, and his failed attempts to find meaning which brought about a long period of depression. But this is a love story and Michael comes to realize that all things are sustained by love and this is where real meaning resides.