Life Lessons: Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier: Pages from a Notebook [Paperback]

A beautiful collection of short essays which act as a spiritual and emotional first-aid kit. (The Guardian )

Lesley Garner has produced the perfect bedside book for those nights when you can't sleep and it's too late to call a friend. (You magazine )

She writes like a dream....she is always wise, perceptive and utterly original. (Daily Mail )

Superb (The Independent )

A highly praised columnist for the Daily Telegraph, Lesley Garner's latest book is an anthology of some of the essential pieces from all three of her previous works, examined again in a new light and with more depth and relevance than ever before, by relating them to the extraordinary experience of being let into the confidence of thousands of people. "This is a retreat in a book. Open it and take time out. Reading one essay takes thirty seconds but that one essay might shift you to a new way of being. This book is designed to deliver what I know of mood-shifting, re-inspiring, creative thinking, re-framing your experience, shifting the dark and letting in light. You can apply it to work, love, grief, change, fear, even despair. When you read it, know that it rests on four beliefs. We cannot change others, only ourselves. We know more than we think we do. We find the answers in stillness. And, the fourth truth, which I have learned from thousands of people: we are not alone." - Lesley Garner

Lesley Garner has been taking notes all her life. Her thoughts and observations have been published as magazine features, profiles and newspaper columns for many different titles, including the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and London Evening Standard. She has been an art critic, book and film reviewer and when she's not writing, she loves to get out and sing choral music. She has travelled widely, lived in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, and currently lives in London.

Author Residence: London