Jo interviewed eleven very different couples for this book. Their stories include an arranged marriage, a couple who were engaged within two months of meeting, a love story with plenty of tribulation and doubt along the way, a couple who started dating as teenagers, and a couple who found each other as pensioners. Her delightful and entertaining book includes thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter.

This book is based on the author's own experience of wrestling with depression, and her story carries the book along. Using this structure she discusses the stigma associated with depression. She talks of the importance of correct diagnosis, and the challenges of day to day survival. She takes an honest look at the temptation to suicide, and how depression affects one's prayer life and relationship to God. Where are the sources of comfort and healing? Jo Swinney considers biblical characters subject to depression, and argues for the importance of sharing stories. Finally she asks, what does...