With luminous clarity and unsentimental grace, Kate Bowler delivers a meditation on the sacred, vivid, heartbreaking absurdity of being alive

ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of Eat, Pray, Love

If it feels like joy is missing from your life, drop what you're doing and read this book. Kate Bowler's wisdom is perfectly timed for our tumultuous times

ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author

A delight from start to finish, Joyful, Anyway embodies the mix of pleasure and aching that makes us human. A book to take you through life's aftermaths

KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering

A profoundly wise, hilarious, large-hearted and down-to-earth meditation on the fundamental unsolvability of being human – and how it's in the very middle of the mess that joy is waiting to be found. I know I'll be returning to this book again and again

OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of Four Thousand Weeks

Bowler's richest and wisest book yet, and if possible, the most charming. Absolutely lovely. It changed me

ANNE LAMOTT, author of Bird by Bird

Joyful, Anyway is colourful and layered, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw feeling and vulnerability – much like Kate Bowler herself. She suffers no fools, especially the toxic optimists. With her signature mix of tenderness and ache, Bowler lingers comfortably in the strange terrain where joy and pain don't alternate, but constantly intertwine

JERRY SEINFELD