Five Comfort Books to Get You Through Blue Monday

Books to the rescue, as always!

Claire Handscombe
4 min readJan 17, 2022

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The third Monday of January has been known for some time a Blue Monday in the UK — the most depressing day of the year. It’s particularly rough there, with dark, sunless days and early sunsets and no impending time off work, but it can be a rough patch for everyone. The Independent puts it like this: “The theory goes that this…

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Claire Handscombe

Editor of WALK WITH US: How the West Wing Changed Our Lives; author of the novel UNSCRIPTED and of CONQUERING BABEL: a Practical Guide to Learning a Language.