When you're struggling with anxiety, low mood, challenging situations or difficult feelings, you may well turn to therapy, self-help, alternative therapies or medication. However, one solution may already be in your home, stacked neatly on your bookshelves. This is a book about bibliotherapy, or how we can all feel a bit better with fiction.

Find out how the literary greats have guided me through life and anxiety, hear the stories of other readers, and enjoy all the fiction prescriptions on offer in this literary first aid kit.

I'll show you how Tolstoy has helped me find meaning in my own life, how fellow bibliophiles have overcome anxiety with Haruki Murakami, and how Jane Eyre could hand you the courage and confidence to succeed in life.

There is a book out there to help us all through life's difficulties; we just need a little help in finding it.