Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality by Ferdinand Mount #joyce

Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality by Ferdinand Mount #joyceDATE OF RELEASE: 24 SEPT 2026 '[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book Mount makes for a delightful guide' Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount. Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to play in it. In Soft, Ferdinand Mount tells the millennium long history of emotion through delightful snapshots, often mischievous

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