Book description
Hunched exhausted at his computer one ordinary Monday morning,
world-class workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether.
Fearing for his health and family life, he knows something has to
change. But where to start when trying too hard is part of the problem?
Nick makes a bold resolution: he will spend a year learning to let go.
Beginning with a plunge off a Cornish cliff, he soon graduates to
wing-walking on a bi-plane, city-centre clowning and a revealing weekend
at a naturist convention. But the more he tries to relax, the bigger the
questions: can you be happy if you're not in control? Is true
contentment all in the mind? And what does his small, brown dog know
that Nick doesn't? From a school where pupils make the rules, to
meditation and rafting in Sweden; from the chaos of a Durban street
shelter to a silent monastery in New Mexico, URBAN WORRIER charts a
humorous and often moving quest for the ultimate modern grail: how to
find balance and fulfilment in today's high-speed world. Nick Thorpe
is an award-winning journalist based in Edinburgh. He has worked for a
range of publications, including the Scotsman, Guardian, Independent,
Daily Telegraph, The Times, Sunday Times, Scotland on Sunday and the BBC
World Service.
