The title of Richard E Grant’s memoir A Pocketful of Happiness – which won the British Book awards’ best nonfiction audiobook prize – refers to an instruction from his late wife, Joan Washington, that he should find “a pocketful of happiness” every day to help him through his grief after her death.
“Honouring my wife’s edict became my New Year’s resolution and my mantra,” he says. “Having never followed any religion, brought up to regard it all as superstition, Joan’s simple challenge has proved to be profoundly powerful.”
