If the back cover says ‘Cesare Annunziata is a man of few words and many peculiarities’, then I want to read it. If you then put the title on the front ‘Why it is so attractive to be happy’, then even more so.

I often wonder how you become the happiest, but I also often wonder whether chasing that happiness is really so wise. Because maybe you miss the whole being happy. The 77-year-old Italian Cesare Annunziata from Naples has nothing more to lose in his life, which is why he looks at and comments on and gives advice in a bizarre way. The book for when you want to start the new year with a good read. I was already laughing out loud at paragraph one.