From the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius and Oprah Winfrey to the wit of Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde, Common Sense Ain’t So Common packages centuries of provocative and profound ideas into an everyday primer for living a happier and healthier life.
Sometime in the early 1990s, Scott Nelson traded a job as a reporter, feature writer and photographer on a New Zealand daily newspaper for a one-way ticket to London - using the city as a base for six years of backpacking around five continents. Along the way, Scott worked as a travel, entertainment and business journalist; a pourer of pints, a tour guide, a salesman and as a live-in carer looking after elderly people with advanced dementia. Nowadays, he lives with his partner and young twins in Nova Scotia, on Canada's east coast. Here, he writes fiction and non-fiction, computer code, and the occasional piece of journalism. The Carer is Scott's third book - and his first novel.