Description
Book Synopsis''Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking'' Guardian, Book of the Day
Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even mortality risk than anything else except giving up smoking.
Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar''s number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them
Trade Review
A fascinating study of friendship -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *
Friends offers poignant observations about how we have evolved to rely on one another for help and companionship - and how these bonds make our lives meaningful -- Clea Skopeliti * The i *
A timely arrival -- Sheon Han * Atlantic *
