“ In this candid, wise, and warmly personal book, C. S. Lewis gently reflects on the four basic kinds of human life – affection, friendship, erotic love, charity. He explores the promise and perils of love between parents and children; love men share with other men and women with other women; love shared between men and women; and the love of and for God that deepens all love. Lewis also considers the questions of sex, possessiveness, jealousy, pride, false sentimentality, good and bad manners in loving, and the need for more laughter between lovers. There are risks that accompany the rewards of love, the author cautions, but he recommends taking them, since “the only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”