'An exceptional book' Financial TimesEveryone - or almost everyone - falls in love. It is such a commonplace event that the world hardly notices it happen. Concentrating on the heady, intense and often anguished state that is the beginning of a love affair, Sheila Sullivan explores the psychological, social, sexual and cultural processes that allow normally rational people to lose their reason. Reaching out to the happy in love as well as the broken-hearted, Falling in Love speaks to both those who scorn love and to those who celebrate it. Clear-headed and wise this is an indispensable guide around the strange territory of a love affair.