Joy
Celebrating the Small Wonders in Life
Published by Diogenes as Zuversicht
Original Title: Zuversicht

It feels like we’re living in expectation of imminent catastrophe. What can we do when all lightness gets lost? Louise Brown knows how fleeting happiness can be. Over a year, she decides to record the small wonders and ordinary joys she encounters in her daily life. She discovers that even the darkest days conceal moments of joy and wonder. This book is an invitation to celebrate the ordinary miracles in our busy daily lives.

Philosophy, Contemporary Literature, Psychology
224 pages
2025

978-3-257-07359-1
Louise
Brown

Louise Brown, born in London in 1975, moved with her family to East Holstein in northern Germany as a teenager. She studied political science in northern England, Kiel and Berlin. She is a journalist and has also been a funeral orator in Hamburg for several years, where she facilitates the first ›Death Café‹. In her podcast My Perfect Burial she talks to people about how they want to say their goodbyes. Louise Brown lives in Hamburg with her partner, two children and a dog.

Photo: © Gene Glover

Quotes

Louise Brown

»When you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it!«

Eva Eusterhus
Welt am Sonntag, Hamburg

»It invites us to recognise the beautiful sides of things and to pay more attention to them.«