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A week after my 50th birthday, and just as our family was about to move home, something happened that changed the way I looked at life. I spoke to others about how they rebuilt their shattered worlds after very different personal traumas, emerging stronger than before. I hope our experiences, together with the latest science on resilience, will help guide all those going through tough times. This book says that it's possible not just to survive them but to thrive. To rise.

Hattie is moving to rural Wales to pursue a whirlwind romance with a man named Oliver. Her friends are shocked: it's all so sudden; they've never even met him. That's because Hattie made him up: Oliver isn't real. Diagnosed with a hidden disability at two years old, Hattie's sick of constantly explaining herself and proving that she's more than her condition. One fateful night - a New Year's Eve in London - she's tipped over the edge: Hattie decides to run away and live as an able-bodied person for the first time.

This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning. We live in an age of self-improvement and self-examination - lifehacking, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness retreats - but this seemingly very modern phenomenon is a pursuit that dates back for millennia.