The yearning for a predetermination is no place more grounded than in our heartfelt life" we are told at the beginning of Alain de Botton's On Affection, a hip, beguiling, and devastatingly clever rumination on the rushes and entanglements of heartfelt love Love shows you how to get more warmth and association in your connections by making sense of why genuine affection is so troublesome nowadays and how to battle the ridiculous assumptions society has set up that makes it so hard.