The Novel Cure

By Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin

Why do I like this book? Very often in life we face new challenges and problems.

Of course, we attempt to tackle these; however, typically we get a bit anxious or concerned as we are worried about the future (outcome).

Interestingly, for every major challenge that one may face, somebody already wrote a novel about it. The neat thing is, that, by reading the novel (in summary), we can read about people who faced similar challenges to ours and how the future panned out for them; you may wish to know, mostly, well.

There is a good chance that this may provide you with a lot of insights or comfort, helping you with your own challenges. (You may think that novels are not real stories. Correct, but they a written by intelligent people and often could be true. No harm to get some additional inspirations.)

The book is organized like a dictionary and you can look up key words like (I take a random pick):
- Ageing parents
- Job, hating your
- Trust, loss of

There are around 1000 subjects in alphabetical order