Slow Love

"There is such feeling and care on each page of Browning’s well-honed memoir . . .that the reader is swept along in a pleasant mood of transcendence.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

For over a decade, Dominique Browning was editor-in-chief of Condé Nast’s House & Garden. One Monday morning in November 2007, the magazine folded and she was told she had four days to pack up her office. Like thousands who followed her, she was out of work.

Overnight, her driven, purpose-filled days vanished. With her children leaving home, and a long relationship ending, the structure of her days disappeared. She fell into a panic of loss—but found humor despite everything, discovering a deeper joy than any she had ever known. It was a life she had not sought, but one that offered pleasures and surprises she didn’t know she lacked.

Slow Love is about wearing your pajamas to the farmer’s market, packing up a beloved home and downsizing to a more rural setting, making time to play the piano and go kayaking, picking up the Bible, reinventing yourself, and not cutting corners when it comes to love, muffins or gardening. This elegant, graceful—and funny—book inspires us to dance in the kitchen and seize upon new directions.