SCHADENFREUDE (PB)

A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith reveals how everyone - babies, nuns, your most trusted friends - enjoys your misfortunes. Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion - and perhaps, even, embracing it.