Lang leav biography books price

At its core, Lang Leav’s work deals in highly self-indulgent ideas that encourage shallow and sometimes dangerous behaviour. A lot of it sounds pleasantly lyrical and confessional, but doesn’t mean much when you start taking it apart.

In Soul Mates, one of her most popular pieces, she talks about the elusive circumstances of infatuation.

It’s that moment when your eyes meet across a room, and you realise he’s the one. But by distilling this moment into a single verse and putting it on a page, she deliberately paints an incomplete picture.

It’s a picture of convenience; one that explores the part of love that is all desire without actually having to communicate and figure each other out.

In a book, these ideas gain legitimacy. The book becomes something you can pair with a glass of wine on a cold and lonely night as you wallow in your unrequited feelings.

I say “wallow” because this is exactly what her