Are we happy yet?

Four books dancing around the question, why aren't people happy?

Happy?
Carol Tavris
15 June 2005

HAPPINESS
Lessons from a new science
Richard Layard
309pp. | Allen Lane. £17.99. 0 713 99769 9. US: Penguin Press. $25.95. | 1 594 20039 4

MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
The nature of happiness and its origins in childhood
Paul Martin
306pp. | Fourth Estate. £15.99. | 0 00 712706 5

GOING SANE
Adam Phillips
245pp. | Hamish Hamilton. £14.99. 0 241 14209 1. US: Fourth Estate. | 0 007 15539 5



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