We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children but no long-term relationship is as simple as happily ever after. ...Explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence.

The New York Times -bestselling author's modern classic that takes a conventional love story and textures it with philosophical ruminations( Kirkus Reviews ). A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story-from first kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with starling clarity, as novelist and philosopher Alain...