Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Happy Ever After written and go through by Paul Dolan.

Get yourself a good education, achieve success, get married, have got kids and look after your health. This is exactly what we’re informed will make us happy. But what if these tales are doing even more harm than good?

In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Teacher Paul Dolan attracts on groundbreaking research and data to bust the normal myths about happiness and show that the path to fulfilment is actually far more unforeseen than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our values, free our minds in the ‘narrative traps’ of typical wisdom and create our own version of the good life, predicated on maximising positive, meaningful experiences that may generate new sociable benefits – not really least greater tolerance for different ways of life.

Pleasure isn’t what you’re told. It’s everything you do.