SUNSHINE - One Man’s Search for Happiness
Author: Robert Mighall
ISBN: 9780719520006 / 9780719595103
Price: $29.95 / $39.95

A celebration of our love affair with the sun
Robert Mighall is hopelessly addicted to sunshine. He climbs ladders to catch the last rays of the descending sun and takes regular sun breaks during the working day, joining the smokers outside for his own furtive fix. An obsessive, yes, but he is only an extreme example of our national type and a reflection of the English fixation with the weather. Sunshine follows Mighall’s quest to understand his own addiction, and our collective devotion to this distant, fickle mistress. It looks at the history of this obsession and explains what happens to us physically and emotionally when we go in search of the sun, or when it comes to us.

Witty, romantic and absurdly obsessive, Sunshine illuminates something everybody loves, but nobody has yet attempted to capture between two covers. It is about the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of love and the elusiveness of both.