* Nick Thorpe learns how to let go in this often funny, often moving search for calm, out now in paperback

When modern life grinds you down, how do you stop worrying and learn to let go?

Exhausted and fearing for his health and family life, world class workaholic Nick Thorpe resolves to spend a year finding out. Beginning with a plunge off a cliff in Cornwall, he is soon experimenting with wing-walking, guerrilla clowning and a revealing weekend at a naturist convention. But the more he tries to loosen up, the bigger the questions: can you really relax if you're not in control? From a school where pupils make the rules, to meditation in New Mexico and log rafting in Sweden, Urban Worrier charts a humorous and often moving quest for the ultimate modern grail: how to find balance and fulfilment in today's high-speed world.

'Urban Worrier chronicles a breathtaking year' Jonathan Sale, Independent

'Thorpe's epiphany is profound and affecting, and it is the counterpoint of poignancy and comedy that makes this very personal search for peace so utterly life-affirming' Scotsman

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