Reviews

Breathnach is known to millions of women from her best-selling "daybook" Simple Abundance (Warner, 1995). In this follow-up she acknowledges that many of us, despite having a great deal, want "something more." Instead of dismissing that yearning, she encourages us to "excavate the authentic self" to discover the roots of that yearning. By understanding the source, we can address and resolve the problem. One way to do this is to conduct a personal "archaeological" digÄan involved exercise that is interspersed with anecdotes and quotations from a variety of sources (Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen, among others). This abridged recording is read by the author, who conveys authenticityÄshe's done this for herselfÄand sincerityÄ"If we love ourselves...all we have is all we need." A popular addition to public library collections.ÄNann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL