''This is a really beautiful book...It''s a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them'' Nick Laird''By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questionsNeither novels nor psychoanalysis promise to finally answer those questions. Instead, they invite us to look and listen - and to live in a way that lets us keep asking'' TLSFrom the truths and lies we tell about ourselves to the resonant creations of fiction, stories give shape and meaning to all our livesBoth a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of literature, Josh Cohen has long been taken with the mutual echoes between the life struggles of the consulting room and the dramas of the novel. So what might the most memorable characters in literature tell us about how to live meaningfully?In How to LiveWhat to Do, Cohen plots a course through the various stages of our lives, discovering in each the surprising a