When Life Gives You Lemons… : Philosophy Is Fun, Sometimes…. (Lemons- Philosophical Citrus Fun Book 4)
About
What if the wisest person in town charged one biscuit per session?
In the small city of Citrusville, a retired philosophy professor named Harry Kane sits every morning on a park bench under a mango tree. Armed with a thermos of masala chai, a hand-painted sign reading “Advice is free. Wisdom costs a biscuit,” and an inexhaustible willingness to listen, he has accidentally become the most unlikely counsellor in town.
He isn’t a therapist. He isn’t a guru. He simply asks the right questions — and somehow, people leave lighter than when they arrived.
They come with wonderfully ridiculous problems: Clive, replaced at work by a chatbot named Moneypenny. Nancy, abandoned for a woman named Trisha who does goat yoga (the goats are participants, not spectators). A retired project manager who brought a whiteboard to a park bench — with action items. A grandmother with 2.3 million followers who can’t bring herself to tell her son she misses his Sunday phone calls.
When Life Gives You Lemons… is a warm, funny, quietly wise novel about the absurdity of being human — and the strange grace that comes from someone who is genuinely paying attention.
- Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and Alexander McCall Smith
- Comic fiction with genuine emotional depth
- Each chapter is a self-contained vignette — perfect for reading anywhere
“Problems don’t vanish. Life doesn’t get easier. But it does get funnier.”
Welcome to the bench. The chair is waiting.