{"product_id":"how-to-be-hopeful-trade-paperback","title":"How to Be Hopeful (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eA joyful journey into how to live more hopefully in hard times, from million-copy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e bestseller Caitlin Moran - perfect for fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eWintering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style='box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eNot getting enough sleep, doomscrolling on your phone, and feeling acid anxiety every time you watch the news? You're not alone. One morning, Caitlin Moran lay in bed and realised: she had finally reached Peak Despair. The point where, in books and movies, the heroine decides to move to a remote farmhouse, walk an ancient, 600-mile pathway, or adopt a baby hare. The moment where someone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003egoes on a quest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eto find ...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003e hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style='box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBut this - this is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003enot \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003ethat kind of book. Caitlin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003e tried \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e- but it turns out remote Welsh farmhouses are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003ereally \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eexpensive. No-one with a job can walk 600 miles. And it's incredibly hard to get access to baby hares in Crouch End.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style='box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAnd so, Caitlin decides instead to go on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003edomestic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003equest. To see if you can stay in the same house, in the same neighbourhood, but feel better about the frantic modern world by trying to make better \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003edays. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eLeaving social media, eschewing 24\/7 news for local newspapers, sitting on buses without headphones, and listening to what people are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003ereally \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003esaying. Picking litter, donating blood, rewilding a garden, and the hardest thing of all - learning to fall back in love with the world again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style='box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \"Amazon Ember\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eOver the course of a year, Caitlin finds that life can be radically transformed when you rebel against the news cycle and algorithms that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003ewant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eto keep us angry, adrenalised, and anxious. You can't change the world - but you can change your days. And, once you've changed your days, maybe you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003ecould \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003echange the world. Just a little bit.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\r\nBeing hopeful is a decision. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eHow To Be Hopeful \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eis the diary of how one person made that change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caitlin Moran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854569652402,"sku":"9781529974805","price":480.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781529974805.jpg?v=1786064504","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/how-to-be-hopeful-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}