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Arianna Huffington meets Madame de Menopause

A review of Arianna Huffington’s ‘Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life’. You've seen the advice a thousand times. But the person giving it is something else...

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life Ariana Huffington

W.H. Allen, pp.342, £16.99, ISBN: 9780753555408

A-Huff’s career has been remarkable for the contrast between hard-headed social advancement (‘the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus’) and addle-pated spiritual questing. In this she resembles an older, colder Gwyneth Paltrow, who coincidentally came out with her ‘consciously uncoupling’ corker as I was ploughing my way through Thrive — such a G.P.

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