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At times you describe the book as a kind of self-help book, and I’m wondering how seriously you take that description. Do you think of what you’ve written as a self-help book? Or are we meant to take that description slightly ironically?
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Well, in Midlife it was slightly tongue-in-cheek in that there I kind of enjoyed playing with the form. The whole idea of declaring oneself to be having...