Small Pleasures Of LifeA bestseller in its native France, this book presents the author's musings on the small pleasures of life. These are both uniquely Gallic (walking back from the bakery with a bag of croissants) and universal (reading on the beach).

Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs

sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge

A bill of reckoning is due

a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and safety

Paralysed from the shoulders down

Bonded by this strange night on the bridge

crisp blue sky mornings when the light through your window is just right

and published a successful novel

unprocessed plant foods

and afraid that the killer is someone she knows

But when her in-laws insist upon a new wife

her last full collection as Poet Laureate