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What makes life truly valuable

So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which if only we paid more attention could bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort.

This is a book to guide us to the best of life's small pleasures: the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand, having a warm bath or the joy of the evening sky. It is an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures to heighten the senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.

Small pleasures are points of access to the great themes of our lives. Every chapter puts one such moment of enjoyment under a magnifying glass to find out what's really going on and why it touches, moves and makes us smile.

Paperback book | 240 pages | 198mm x 129mm

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Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Michael E. ★★★★★

I read a few pages every night before bed and it's genuinely changed how I notice things like sunlight through the kitchen window. The short chapters make it easy to dip into even when I'm tired, and I've already underlined half the book.

Brian G. ★★★★★

I picked this up during a hectic week and it completely reset how I see my daily routine. The way it reframes "small pleasures" as something worth our attention rather than a distraction felt genuinely profound, and I’ve already started noticing little moments I used to rush past.

Abigail ★★★★★

The chapters are short enough to read one during a lunch break, and each one actually made me pause and look around my own life differently. It’s a gentle book, but it's stuck with me more than most big self-help tomes I've read.

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