Introduction

As we wrote this book, Sue’s father was admitted to hospital for an operation and died a few weeks later; her daughter was told her research contract would not be renewed, because of cutbacks, and her husband was quarantined for two weeks with suspected swine flu; her son, who lives in America, turned down a coveted place at business school; his wife resigned from her job … and her cat went missing. And then her husband rang late one evening from Brussels, as he was about to board the Eurostar home, to say he had lost his passport and was not allowed on the train.

Does this sound like a series of disasters to you? What if you had to summarise the things that have happened in your life in the past few months? It’s likely they would ...

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