Böcker av Florence Williams

An intrepid investigation into nature's restorative benefits by a prize-winning author.

When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much-and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong.Soon Williams finds herself on a surprising path that leads her from neurogenomic research laboratories to trying MDMA in a Portland therapist's living room, from divorce workshops to the mountains and rivers that restore her. She tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks while looking at pictures of her ex, and discovers that our immune cells listen to loneliness. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she seeks out new relationships and ventures into the wilderness in search of an extraordinary antidote: awe.With warmth, daring, wit, and candor, Williams offers a gripping account of grief and healing. Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.

Complicated Us is the second book in the Complicated Series (a YA/New Adult romance series). Zoe and Ryan are face to face again, but this time things are a little different. A new city, new lives, Ryan's brand new fame, and Zoe's focus on her mental health recovery make things a little more than just complicated. Will Zoe be able to look beyond the past, or are things the way they're meant to be?

For every book sold, Florence will be donating to Samaritans, registered charity 219432. Complicated You is Florence's debut novel and the first book in the Complicated Series (a YA/New Adult romance series). Zoe always had a plan. Well, it was a plan her father created for her, but a plan nonetheless. She was at university, on track to become a lawyer, and nothing was going to stop her... until she suffers an unforeseen loss, causing her monochrome life of stability, comfort and predictability to turn on its head. Now, ridden with guilt and grief, Zoe must decide whether to let the demons of her mind pull her under, or whether Ryan-a tantalizing musician who Zoe swears could also be a model-can show her a different path of self-discovery.

An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.