On Wanting to Change

From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.\nWe live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.\nWe change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.\nWe want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.\nSo there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . .\nThis sparkling book is about that fact.