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Apr 20, 2025 2:54 PM

Author:Ingrid Fetell Lee

Joyful

'This book has the power to change everything' Susan Cain, author of Quiet

In this groundbreaking book, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how making small changes to your surroundings can create extraordinary happiness in your life. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she reveals how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising effects on our mood and how we can harness the power of our environment to live fuller, healthier and more joyful lives.

'An inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good' Arianna Huffington

'This mesmerizing book will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again

Reviews

This book has the power to change everything. Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy.

—— Susan Cain, author of QUIET and founder of Quiet Revolution

A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea: we all have within the power to design joy into our lives. Joyful is an inexhaustible and exciting guide to what makes life good

—— - Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global; Founder, The Huffington Post

Joy is the most basic building block of happiness, and this mesmerizing book reveals where to find it—and how to create it. Ingrid Fetell Lee’s blockbuster debut will open your eyes to all the places where joy is hiding in plain sight. Warning: reading this book may cause unexpected bouts of joy.

—— Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS, GIVE AND TAKE, and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg

A tender and moving book about one of our most important feelings - joy

—— Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Lost Connections

Joyful overturns conventional wisdom about happiness: that it comes from within, and that experiences--not things--make us happier. Ingrid Fetell Lee's delightful book evokes the same positive feelings she describes. It is full of whimsy, wonder, energy, and joy. I loved it.

—— Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, and author of The How of Happiness

Joyful is a delightful book with a powerful message: joy is easy to find if you know where to look. In JOYFUL, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explains why some experiences are laden with joy, explores how we can cultivate these experiences every day, and shows us how to identify the most joy-inspiring people, places, and objects in our lives

—— Adam Alter, Professor of Marketing, NYU, and author of Irresistible

Joyful reveals the powerful notion that joy can be cultivated to flourish within all of us. This idea can change the world.

—— David Kelley, founder of the design and innovation company IDEO

Joyful is an invaluable field guide to discovering delight in all its forms. It's hard to look at the world - and your place in it - quite the same way again

—— Bianca Bosker, New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork

A tender and moving book about one of our most important feelings -- joy

—— Johann Hari, The New York Times bestselling author of Lost Connections

Always a fan of Orsola, her thinking & doing. You'll not want to put her new book down!

—— Safia Minney, MBE, Founder People Tree, Author & Climate Activist

A high energy book which brings powerful ideas of change to a new audience

—— Professor Kate Fletcher, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London

This is such a progressive step for humanity! Orsola makes changing our consumption habits and saving our planet a fun and doable practice. With all the glaringly obvious facts, how can we not take part in the fashion revolution? Yes to mending, repairing and rewearing!

—— Samantha Moyo, ‘Extinction Rebellion Together’ Diversity Coordinator

A helpful inspiring book with simple steps that we can all commit too and benefit from straight away

—— Melissa Hemsley, author and columnist for British Vogue

I'm a huge admirer of Orsola and her work. I love this book's mindful approach to looking after our clothes, giving us the tools to love them for longer and show respect to the people who made them

—— Venetia La Manna 'Slow fashion campaigner, broadcaster and co-founder of Remember Who Made Them'

Hands down Academic Couture. Loved Clothes Last is a beautifully constructed and eloquently written masterpiece. Orsola weaves the importance of the cultural influence of the fashion industry, how it's destroyed us and how it can save us with the economic and environmental impact on people and planet, the beauty of buttons and how to darn a sock, she successfully interlaces "why we wear" with "why we should care

—— Patrick Duffy

Orsola represents both radical grace and graceful radicalness. This book is a super inspiring how to guide for all of us that want to emulate her

—— Alice Jay, activist and conservationist
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