Couples: How We Make Love Last

'I really welcome the publication of this book. It is a rich mix of theoretical perspective and the "voice of the people". It should go a long way to normalising our attitudes towards relationship issues. Kate Figes has managed to demonstrate how ordinary couples in ordinary relationships have ups and downs, and how these can be overcome in most cases. I hope the book will go some way from shifting our perspective from a focus on relationship disease to relationship health' --Terry Prendergast, Chief Executive, Marriage Care

'This book should be supplied free on the National Health, it would save the country a fortune' --Helen Simpson

'A fascinating portrait of twenty-first-century relationships . . . through an often rocky romantic terrain, taking in romance, sex, arguments and power play, children, family and ageing . . . A richly rewarding, surprising and heartening read, moving, poignant and at times very funny' --Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph

'Figes brings her subject to life with passion and sense' --Susanna Rustin, Guardian

'As absorbing as a good novel or a soul-baring talk with an old and trusted friend' --Melissa Benn, New Statesman