How Proust can change your life

'What a marvellous book this is...de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary.

The result is an intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so fresh a fashion as to be unique...I could not stop, and now much start all over again.' - Brian Masters, "Mail on Sunday".