Quote Therapy by Georgia Clare, Short Stories of Healing and Hope Set in France

Some quotes stop you mid-breath. And then life carries on, and nothing changes. Quote Therapy begins where the quote ends.

Most of us have had a line from a poem, or a sentence someone else wrote, land so precisely it feels as if it was written for us. Knowing a beautiful truth and living by it are two different things, though, and a lot of us spend years in the gap between them. This book is about the people who finally crossed it.

Across forty-nine short stories set in real villages, towns and countryside in France, ordinary people are pushed by grief, loss, fear or decades of quietly believing the wrong thing about themselves, towards the one action a single borrowed line finally made possible.

A widow who can't bring herself to touch the garden her husband loved. A woman who hasn't raised her prices in twelve years. A man who spent fifty years believing a teacher's careless verdict about his intelligence. A sixty-eight-year-old retrieving a writing competition entry from the recycling bin.

Each chapter pairs a quote from writers and thinkers such as Frankl, Rumi, Kipling, Camus and Shakespeare with a very human story and a short reflection on what that wisdom asks of us in real life. The endings aren't always tidy and the people aren't always brave, but they begin anyway.

Georgia wrote it from the French countryside she calls home, for anyone who has found comfort in someone else's words and wondered what it would feel like to live by them.

This is a completely rewritten second edition of the book previously published as Quote Therapy.

Perfect for:

• Readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Little Paris Bookshop and Wintering
• Anyone starting again after grief or loss
• Lovers of France and quiet, character-led stories
• A thoughtful gift for a friend going through a hard time

Paperback, printed on cream paper with a matte cover. Books are packaged securely and sent by tracked post.

Questions are always welcome at georgia@bookquotedecor.com