The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship.

Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, Gray’s was a lone voice of scepticism. shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years – the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

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