The LOVE ProjectA Journey of Intimate Conversations

What if…
You moved to a new town during Covid and knew almost no one?
Your mother is transformed by unexpected love?
Your beloved dog introduces you to remarkable people with profound love stories?
You have a brush with death and feel an urgency to create something impactful?
I’m a journalist, and BBC contributor. These experiences sparked a sense of purpose that felt compelling and timely. I had to write this book to share these uplifting journeys, including:
A reunion heals the bond between mother and son
A widower rediscovers joy through cherished memories
A struggling teen finds strength through loving kindness
An immigrant awakens to a world of possibility
A young woman finds a secret nightlife passion
“Each chapter unfolds as a conversation—sometimes playful and intimate, sometimes raw and vulnerable—in which ordinary lives reveal extraordinary reckonings with love, loss, desire, betrayal, grief, faith, aging, and resilience.” Kirkus Reviews

EXCITING NEWS: The LOVE Project was chosen as an Editor’s Pick by Publisher’s Weekly. The reviewer compared it to the NYT’s Modern Love, Aaron Feinberg et al.’s Meet Cutes.

Praise for The Love Project

“Alison van Diggelen brings her considerable interviewing skills and empathetic storytelling to The Love Project… Inspirational, emotive and revelatory of the power, nature, mystery and pain, of love. The Love Project is a journey well worth being part of.”

Michael Krasny of NPR’s KQED Forum

“Alison van Diggelen has spent years interviewing the rich and famous, asking the kinds of questions that some of us ponder, but never dare to ask. More than a profession, for Alison, asking questions is an art. In this remarkable collection, she combines that art with her own deeply personal revelations and insights, connecting with neighbors from widely different walks of life who tell their stories and share their hearts like brush strokes on a canvas, painting answers to a series of quintessential questions: What is love? What is a neighbor? What is this gift we call life? And most of all, how will we choose to live? I found it hard to put down. Every character I met, every story I read, made me want to meet and read the next. What an amazing community of souls.”

Sharon Randall, author of The World and Then Some.

“The story of grit, love, and beautiful chaos. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll probably call your mom when you’re done.”

Guy Kawasaki, bestselling author of Enchantment.

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