From professional disappointments to discrimination, health issues and grief, he chronicles how he came through each thing in a very candid, very honest way. His book Getting Better was the first time he’d written about the death of his son in an extended way, he says. More than 20 years on, he finds that Eddie is “there, he’s in me, he’s around me … Is he ‘at rest’ in me and with me? Rosen reveals in the final chapter that this style in itself is part of his method for Getting Better. As with all of Rosen's writing there is a mix of humour and sadness and while talking about what has helped him Rosen never becomes didactic.

They spot a woman crying by a wall: she can barely speak through her tears but tells them she is mourning her son who had died 10 years earlier. When Michael was growing up, stories often hung in the air about his great-uncles: one was a clock-mender and the other a dentist. Amidst all this are more random chapters which end up trying to be a self help book on how we can all get better. I mean, if you look very closely, the wording from the notebooks of Patrick Vallance, who was the key government scientist at the time, he was jotting down what people like Boris Johnson and our present Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was saying. Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.His memory is now much improved, he says, and he’s making further demands on it by learning a new language. As someone with a lifelong chronic illness, his words speak to my soul, and this book didn't disappoint. That language, Yiddish, was the language of my grandparents, great grandparents, and to a certain extent of my parents. I have great admiration for Rosen, but, for my taste, he just errs on the side of pontification, drawing morals, being a tiny bit too clever (a bit cruel, Martin!

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. Un livre particulièrement bon, je l'ai lu avec mon enfant 3 fois, en s'appuyant sur leurs propres expériences pour vraiment montrer comment rencontrer des difficultés, faire face aux difficultés et traverser les difficultés, facile à comprendre, réel et convaincant.This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here. What followed was months on the wards: a month in an induced coma, and weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved his life, and then got him back on his feet. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.

I am not who I was,” he tells us in Getting Better, and yet “I am still that person, it’s just that something big happened to change me”. There is no fix, but he details the slow process of finding a voice that allows him to talk about Eddie, aided by a child asking him a question about his son at a talk. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years.Some treasures added to my existing understanding; as a post-war child, I have read widely about World War II and the Holocaust. Even though poor Emma [Rosen’s wife] kept explaining it to me over and over again, I still hadn’t fully copped that I had been one of those people you see on the telly, lying inert with tubes coming out of them. Before he was sedated, a doctor asked if he would sign a piece of paper that would let them put him to sleep.

Goldilocks and her little dog are off on an adventure, looking for that house again – the one with the chairs, the porridge and beds.The stunning new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Many Different Kinds of LoveA Guardian book of 2023A BBC book of 2023'If I could prescribe Getting Better to the entire nation, I would. Yet, in the face of adversity, he persevered and discovered the capacity to unearth joy in the aftermath of tragedy. When he asked his father who the boy was, Rosen or his older brother, Brian, his father said neither – that it was a third son, Alan, who had died as an infant, before Rosen was born. The writing of Many Different Kinds of Love began not with publication in mind, he explains, but as a way of piecing together exactly what had happened to him.