Suki Pryce - Do We Need to Be So Screwed Up?!: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Happiness

Suki Pryce is a former university lecturer with a lifelong interest in hunter-gatherers, mind-body-spirit matters, and what simpler cultures have to teach us today. She has been carrying out research on this book since 2003. She lives in north Norfolk, UK.

My main thanks go to Chris Knight, and Hilary Alton. Chris read the first and last draft of this book, introduced me to a host of essential sources, and gave me the continuing guidance needed to change it from a well-meaning but nave submission into something far more substantial. Hilary has been my most sympathetic and encouraging reader, and also a wonderful source of unusual and hard-to-obtain references which have added immeasurably to the book's strength. Many, many thanks to both of you.

Thanks also to Iain Manson who kindly commented on an early draft; to Sue Curran for invaluable advice on electronic copy-editing; and to Veronika Sophia Robinson, whose enthusiasm about a 2008 article I wrote for The Mother magazine on this book's topic encouraged me to take the subject further. My gratitude also to the authors of the sources I've used, whose works have led me along a fascinating path of discovery and have opened my eyes to new ways of seeing the world. Finally, heartfelt thanks to O-Books for taking me on as an author.

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