Conversations on Love: Lovers, Strangers, Parents, Friends, Endings, Beginnings

by Natasha Lunn

I used to think it was love that I was longing for, but I was wrong. I was obsessed with the idea of love, not the truth of it. All those years and nights I spent asking, ‘When will I find love?’ I never paused to think about what precisely it was.

Although the conversations in this book are stories about love, they are also about the way humans are drawn together and disappointed by each other, how they hurt and mend, how they keep moving forward, even when they think they can’t, trying to grasp some meaning from what life takes away from them. My hope is that they can be for you what they have been for me: a reminder to not let the people you love slip into the background; an invitation to take love more seriously; and an encouragement to make something meaningful out of the life you have been given.

love is a lifelong project, a story that we can’t skip to the end of. How lucky are we, to know we will never finish it? Because there is never a final page, only a series of beginnings. This is one of them.