'A whip-sharp British Bill Bryson' Sunday Times
Ruth Whippman is a British writer, journalist and documentary film-maker. Before moving to the US in 2011, she produced and directed numerous documentaries and current affairs programmes for the BBC. Her essays and comment pieces have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Independent and the Huffington Post amongst other places. She lives in California with her husband and two young sons. This is her first book.
"I LOVED this book. I found it SO WELL WRITTEN, so witty and funny
and reading it I was often envious of Ruth Whippman’s facility with
language. It is a hugely engaging read, accessible and so relevant
... I really, really, really, really enjoyed it and am quite
evangelical about it."
*Marian Keyes, author of THE WOMAN WHO STOLE MY LIFE*
"Like Bill Bryson, Whippman has a willingness to play up cultural
differences to comic effect … She also has Bryson’s sharp ear for
language ... With warm wit and chilling logic, The Pursuit of
Happiness shows that the human desire for contentment can be
manipulated and distorted until it is barely recognisable ... A
whip-smart British Bill Bryson."
*Sunday Times*
"[Ruth Whippman] writes with sharpness and wit"
*Evening Standard*
"Ruth Whippman is my new favorite cultural critic, and her book was
such a joy to read that I temporarily forgot about all my neuroses.
It’s a shrewd, hilarious analysis of why a country obsessed with
happiness is so darn unhappy."
*Adam Grant, author of GIVE AND TAKE, ORIGINALS, and OPTION B
(coauthored with Sheryl Sandberg)*
"Those wanting to understand the complex reality of our personal
quest for happiness might usefully turn to Ruth Whippman’s The
Pursuit of Happiness – the lively memoir of a British journalist in
California, on the hunt for that elusive but, as she sees it,
increasingly sought-after, American ideal of happiness … Whippman –
whose narrative voice is an unlikely mix of Kathy Lette’s and Louis
Theroux’s – has followed her husband to Silicon Valley to start a
new life … Whippman argues persuasively that happiness is something
that emerges from the quality of relationships we have with others
… The Pursuit of Happiness also sheds light on the link between
religion and happiness."
*Times Literary Supplement*
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