The story of the young psychiatrist Hector, who went on a trip around the world in search of the secrets of happiness, captivated the whole world. What happiness is, what it consists of, how to achieve it - this is what the hero of the book by the popular French writer and psychiatrist Francois Lelord seeks to understand. Hector travels through China, Africa, America, meets people of different skin colors, meets friends and enemies, falls in love, risks his life, and is captured. And every adventure unexpectedly turns out to be another lesson in happiness for him. He generously shares all his discoveries with readers, because he started his unusual expedition to help sad people become happy. Hector's Journey, or the Search for Happiness is François Lelord's most successful book. It has been translated into one and a half dozen languages, and its circulation has already exceeded a million.

One day, Hector - or rather psychiatrist Francois Lelord - went in search of happiness and returned with a world bestseller. Le Point

With graceful simplicity and delightful spontaneity, Lelord shows how generally accepted ideas about happiness collapse before our eyes and it becomes clear that happiness is very close, just extend your hand... L'Express

Along with Montaigne and La Bruyère, France reveals Francois Lelord to the world , whose smart fairy tales for adults help people understand themselves. Le Figaro