Notes on a Nervous Planet: Matt Haig - Hardcover

Haig, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786892677 ISBN 13: 9781786892676

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2018

Synopsis

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The world is messing with our minds.
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index.
- How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad?
- How do we stay human in a technological world?
- How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious?
After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him. Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the twenty-first century.

About this title

About the Author

<p><b>Matt Haig</b> is the number one bestselling author of <i>Reasons to Stay Alive</i> and <i>Notes on a Nervous Planet </i>and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including <i>How to Stop Time</i>, <i>The Humans</i> and <i>The Radleys</i>. He has also written many books for children, including most recently the <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller, <i>The Truth Pixie</i>, and he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.<br><br>@matthaig1 | matthaig.com</p>

From the Back Cover

Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index.
- How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad?
- How do we stay human in a technological world?
- How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious?

After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him. Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the twenty-first century.

From the Inside Flap

The follow-up to the number one Sunday Times bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive. The world is messing with our minds.
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index.

- How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad?
- How do we stay human in a technological world?
- How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious?

After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him.

Notes on a Nervous Planet is a personal and vital look at how to feel happy, human and whole in the 21st century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786892677
• ISBN 13: 9781786892676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320