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LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL

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KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS 

 Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs.

In Jake, Marisa has found everything she’s ever wanted. Then their new lodger Kate arrives.
 
Something about Kate isn’t right. Is it the way she looks at Marisa’s boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa’s head?
 
After all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her. And she trusts him – doesn’t she?
 
But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
 
Marisa just doesn’t know why.
  
How far will she go to find the answer – and how much is she willing to lose?

Magpie, By Elizabeth Day, Read by Tanya Reynolds

If you're someone who's a decade or two out from your high school graduation, do you ever find yourself thinking that you're just not as happy as you were back then? Of course all the positive-thinking self-talk then kicks in and you think, "Well, maybe I actually wasn't that happy before. I do like my life better now. I like the independence I have. Yeah, yeah, I really like being an adult." Yet, no matter the glass-half-full glow you try to put on things, you can't shake the feeling that your happiness has declined over the years, that at 30, you weren't as happy as you were at 20, and that at 40, you weren't as happy as you were when you were 30.

Well, that feeling is more than a nostalgic hunch, and it's not unique to you. It's actually been born out by hundreds of research papers and studies and shown to be a near-universal experience. My guest today has authored many of those papers. His name is Dr. David Branchflower and he's a labor economist who not only studies the data around money and jobs, but also around human happiness. Today on the show David explains how happiness follows a U-shaped curve, and starts declining around age 18, and continues to fall into midlife, before picking back up again, and David shares the average age at which happiness hits its very lowest point. While it's not entirely clear why the U-shape of happiness occurs, we talk about some possible reasons behind it. And while the U-shape is consistent across the world, it can be lower or higher, and so we discuss how factors like gender, socio-economic and martial status, and having children affect happiness, and whether it's possible to mitigate the dip.

While the fact that it won't be until your mid-60s that you feel as happy as you were at age 18 might seem depressing, David argues that it's comforting to know that the feelings of declining happiness you experience at you approach midlife are normal, and will not only pass one day, but start moving in the other direction.

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As she finds her way home out of the woods, Betsy Griffin takes us on a journey through the darkest of forests to find the light.

With wise advice from woodland creatures along the way, Betsy takes it upon herself to change her outlook on the world.

In this deeply moving and inspirational fable, she teaches us how to face our struggles with courage and determination, and shares powerful lessons about positivity, kindness and hope.

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Out of the Woods by Betsy Griffin, read by Betsy Griffin & Fearne Cotton

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The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began. Published on December 31, 2007.

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Celebrity psychotherapist and hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn has worked with thousands of men and women struggling with addiction. Using a simple yet highly effective self-hypnosis technique, she can help you to 'quit' your particular addiction for good. Written in an easy-to read style with plenty of questionnaires, self help tips, information boxes and case histories, this book can liberate you from addiction and help you to enjoy life again. During hypnotherapy, you will be able to access your subconscious mind  - the part of your mind that controls urges and impulses - and effectively 'delete' the behaviours and thoughts that control your addictive behaviour in the first place. You will then be able to 'reprogram' your mind with life-enhancing thoughts and behaviours. Just listening to the CD on a regular basis will do all this for you.
 
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In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind&rsquo;s two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them. From the Compact Disc edition.

Origin by Dan Brown, read by Paul Michael

Celebrate thirty years of the Percy the Park Keeper and his animal friends with this funny story in the classic series from award-winning author and illustrator Nick Butterworth! 

 Percy the park keeper and his animal friends are playing hide-and-seek in the park. The fox has found a great hiding place in Percy’s workshop but when he falls into a pot of Very Strong Glue, he soon finds himself springing into an embarrassingly sticky situation! Is there anything his friends can do to help?

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