Beauty, a puzzle. A stand-still, sit-down and take-your-time book. With questions where only your own answers really fit. ‘Seeking beauty | UK’ is about the meaning and experience of the difficult but powerful word ‘beauty’. What is it about and what does it do to us? These and many other questions about this fascinating phenomenon are central to this book.

What are our own answers when it comes to the role of beauty in our lives? Who dares to start out on this quest this gives book a series of challenging intersections, such as: “To what extent do you believe that you can influence the degree of beauty in your life?” and “Does beauty lead to happiness?”. Our own answers to these and many other questions that are asked show how we live our life. Because that is what our own idea of beauty shows us: a mirror.

‘Seeking beauty | UK’ came about thanks to the cooperation of 1722 British men and women: their responses are included in this publication. They show how the UK deals with beauty.