How we can fall in love with our daily lives again
The successful duo: Best-selling authors Susanne Fröhlich and Constanze Kleis
Anything but grey: entertaining reading for everyone who wrangles with their daily lives, even in normal times
A declaration of love to the small things of daily life, which also lift us through the Corona crisis and show what is truly important in life
When our day-to-day life is anything but ordinary: in extraordinary situations and crises we start to reflect on ourselves. Suddenly, it is as if our lives have been put under a magnifying glass and we ask ourselves the questions for which we normally don’t have the time: Is the man in my life the right one? Were the children always like this? Why are so many women back in the kitchen? And since when did I turn into my mother? For what remains when everything changes? When you can’t do anything but carry on? One thing becomes clear: our day-to-day lives are anything but the boredom that we always thought they were. They more glamourous than we thought and provide us with stability when in the wider world everything is falling apart. They are full of sensations and the sum of all the small things that make us us - we are the heroes of our lives. The successful duo of Susanne Fröhlich and Constanze Kleis show us their diaries and recount how they put their daily lives to the test in order to fall in love with them again: in love with what their lives were and what they can be for us - the best part of the day. They make us unique, are fantastic comforters and are full of moments of happiness. We can say with certainty that without it, it all amounts to nothing.
Susanne Fröhlich is one of the best-known authors in Germany. The writer, journalist and presenter works for Hessischer Rundfunk among other places. Both her non-fiction titles like “Fröhlich fasten” (Fröhlich Fasts) and her novels, most recently, “Verzogen” (Address Unknown), have all become best-sellers including “Moppel-Ich” (Pudgy Me) with over 1 million copies sold. Susanne Fröhlich lives close to Frankfurt am Main.
Journalist and best-selling author Constanze Kleis lives in Frankfurt. Her books - many of which she has written together with Susanne Fröhlich - have achieved total sales of more than 600,000 copies. Her book, “Jeder Fisch ist schön, wenn er an der Angel hängt” (Every fish is beautiful when it is hanging on a hook) was nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis. Constanze Kleis has worked for many years for daily papers like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and she has a column in the magazine “Freundin”.
