About Life
- Author
- Maureen Gaffney
- Narrator
- Simone Kirby
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 29 October 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This book is about the most important lessons I have learned in my life . . .
Dr Maureen Gaffney has long been admired for her ability to combine rigorous psychological insight with clarity and real-world understanding. Now, in About Life, she has distilled the key insights of her career into an urgent book for the times we are living through.
In About Life, Dr Gaffney brings together research, a lifetime of observation and her own personal experience to explore the question that matters most in uncertain times: how do we stay resilient, purposeful and fully engaged with life when the world feels increasingly unstable?
From relationships, stress and happiness to identity, purpose, ageing and human connection, she examines the habits of mind that help us navigate change, recover from setbacks and build and sustain lives of meaning and substance.
Written with her characteristic intelligence, honesty and empathy, About Life is a wise and essential guide to living well in unsettled times.
© Maureen Gaffney 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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Details
- Author
- Maureen Gaffney
- Narrator
- Simone Kirby
- Duration
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781405982733
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Popular psychology, Positive psychology
Synopsis
<p><b>This book is about the most important lessons I have learned in my life . . .</b></p><p>Dr Maureen Gaffney has long been admired for her ability to combine rigorous psychological insight with clarity and real-world understanding. Now, in About Life, she has distilled the key insights of her career into an urgent book for the times we are living through.</p><p>In About Life, Dr Gaffney brings together research, a lifetime of observation and her own personal experience to explore the question that matters most in uncertain times: how do we stay resilient, purposeful and fully engaged with life when the world feels increasingly unstable?</p><p>From relationships, stress and happiness to identity, purpose, ageing and human connection, she examines the habits of mind that help us navigate change, recover from setbacks and build and sustain lives of meaning and substance.</p><p>Written with her characteristic intelligence, honesty and empathy, About Life is a wise and essential guide to living well in unsettled times.</p><p>© Maureen Gaffney 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026</p>
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