The Secret Power of Beauty: Why happiness is in the eye of the beholder by John Armstrong, Allen Lane/Penguin, £12.99, ISBN 0713994746 Reviewed by Elizabeth Sourbut
MOST of us would claim to recognise a beautiful person or object when we see it. But we are often unable to explain why we find the object of our gaze so appealing. John Armstrong thinks this is a shame, so in The Secret Power of Beauty he sets out to examine the power that beauty holds over us, and to consider why it’s able to touch our emotions. His clear and thoughtful analysis…
