Book review: Counting My Blessings

In a book that rampages through the psychiatrist Jung, the writer Twain, US president Roosevelt in praise of work, glorious work, whirrs from Mexico to Majorca, back to Mass in Kenmare, Francis Brennan in his Guide to Happiness becomes the cartographer of wellbeing — he is telling us how to be happy.
Francis sets out on the very modern premise that happiness is a choice — and a by-product of how we behave.