Hector and the Search for Happiness (Center Point Platinum Reader's Circle (Large Print))

Lelord, Francois

ISBN 10: 1602859086 ISBN 13: 9781602859081

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2010

Synopsis

Hector is an excellent psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients who are ill, but more and more, his patients are people he can't treat. They have no serious problems -- they're simply deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for these people, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off on a trip around the world to try to find the key to happiness.

Along the way, Hector keeps a list of observations about the people he meets and learns a great deal about what true contentment is all about. His journey into the soul is entertaining, empowering and often funny -- as winning in its optimism as it is powerful in its simplicity.

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Review:

A series of philosophical bonnes bouches ... their effect is unexpectedly cheering’ Independent ‘Even the most aloof, the most detached reader will be won over by this book’ Cosmopolitan ‘Provides a dollop of warm, fuzzy, feel-good escapism’ Woman ‘Intelligently naïve’ Marie Claire ‘A fast-paced, enchanting story. Lelord himself is a psychiatrist, and his interest in the human mind is infectious’ – Book Page "A feel-good gem . . . Francois Lelord has created a 21st-century hero." Good Housekeeping

About the Author:

Francois Lelord has had a successful career as a psychiatrist in France, where he was born, and in the United States, where he did his postdoc (UCLA). He is the co-author of a number of bestselling self-help books and has consulted for companies interested in reducing stress for their employees. He was on a trip to Hong Kong, questioning his personal and professional life, when the Hector character popped into his mind, and he wrote Hector and the Search for Happiness not quite knowing what kind of book he was writing. The huge success of Hector, first in France, then in Germany and other countries, led him to spend more time writing and traveling, and at the height of the SARS epidemic he found himself in Vietnam, where he practiced psychiatry for a French NGO whose profits go toward heart surgery for poor Vietnamese children. While in Vietnam he also met his future wife, Phuong; today they live in Thailand.
Hector and the Search for Happiness is Francois Lelord s first novel, and the first in a series that includes Hector and the Secrets of Love and Hector and the Search for Lost Time."

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1602859086
• ISBN 13: 9781602859081
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 191