The release date for the English version of 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone' by
Lori Gottlieb is Apr 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world, where her patients are yearning for solutions (and so is she), comes from a psychotherapist and national advice columnist.
One day, Lori Gottlieb works as a therapist at her Los Angeles practise, assisting patients. Her world collapses due to a disaster the next day. Enter Wendell, the eccentric but experienced therapist she unexpectedly finds herself in. His cardigan, khakis, and balding head give him the appearance of having been cast from Therapist Central Casting. However, he will prove to be everything but that.
Gottlieb discovers that the questions her patients are grappling with are the same ones she is now posing to Wendell as she delves into the private lives of her patients, which include a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys.
As she walks the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and death, guilt and redemption, dread and bravery, hope and change, Gottlieb explores the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others. She does this with stunning insight and humour.
Perhaps You Should Speak with Someone is groundbreaking in its openness, giving us a very intimate yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and bestowing upon us the rarest of gifts: a daringly candid depiction of what it means to be human, as well as a disarmingly humorous and enlightening narrative of our own enigmatic lives and our capacity to change them.