Natasha Lunn is the most thoughtful interviewer I have ever encountered, with a heart as big as her brain, and these conversations are endlessly inspiring, restorative, surprising and delicious. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

It covers all the different kinds of love that we might experience in our lives and all of the different outcomes that go along with it, friendship, marriage, spurned lovers, etc. Lunn tackles this from her own perspective, focussing on her experience with miscarriage and the impact this had on her and her relationships. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It focuses on learning to recalibrate our minds and expanding our definition of love, moving beyond the romantic idealisation, fantasies and expectations that cause us not to see each other.Reading Conversation on Love feels like a self-reflection, Lunn will guide you to see love in a different way with compassion. I learnt a lot about the different types of love as I read through each chapter, and I read many things in this book that made me pause for a moment and consider how it might apply to me. It's such a touching reminder about the love that really is all around us, and the importance of tending to it. Parallel to her conversations is the story of Lunn and the miscarriage that she and her partner suffered.

Every page makes you think about why we feel the way we do and gently nudges you towards self compassion. Through her own thoughts and a series of interview-like conversations, Natasha Lunn reflects on relationships in all their forms. There are moments in CoL that made me cry (proper ugly cry too), that made me feel very seen and comforted me in so many ways. sometimes a book we don’t expect to wholeheartedly fall in love with comes into our lives at just the right time to provide us with some much needed introspection on everything we’ve been struggling with.In addition to miscarriage, there are other difficult themes and conversations in this book, and whilst they are handled gently and sensitively, through Lunn’s writing and interview style, I will include trigger warnings for bereavement, miscarriage and difficulty to conceive. It talks about all the different relationships in our lives - romantic partners, friendships, parents.

This added to the sense of repetition through the themes rather than unique or differing perspectives that give greater cause for pause and reflection. Whilst I appreciated hearing from different voices and felt this added another layer to the book…I felt that a lot of the perspectives were quite similar. Lunn spends Conversations on Love exploring friendship, sex, loss and expectations, among a host of other subjects, to unearth new, fascinating and wise insights that may just help in your own life, too ― Penguin. I also enjoyed the exploration of love through different relationships and particularly found the conversations with Poorna Bell and Dolly Alderton insightful and relatable.Eye opening and sometimes mind boggling—I went in reading this wanting to come out on the other side with the tools to be the best possible loving version of myself in every way and I believe that I have. Following a series of interviews from a wide range of bestselling and incredible authors, Natasha Lunn explores romantic love, friendships, family, parenthood, sexuality and loss. But how do you commit to actively practicing love for people and the world without getting distracted by longing for a form of love you don’t have? This is a lovely book, personally I struggle to read but this was laid out so the sentences would flow.