Mattering by Jennifer Breheny Wallace & This Year Will Be Different by Sophie Larkspur 2 Books Collection Set

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Sophie Larkspur

The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown in the image.

Mattering [Hardcover]

This Year Will Be Different (Unless It Isn t) [Paperback]













 In a world where loneliness, burnout, and disconnection have reached crisis levels, Jennifer Breheny Wallace offers a transformative mattering. Through vivid storytelling and groundbreaking research, The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Purpose and Connection reveals how feeling seen, needed, and valued isn't just a nice-to-have it's essential for our wellbeing and society's future.

Genres: Nonfiction

670 pages, Paperback

Published April 18, 2026

About the author

Jennifer Wallace is an award-winning journalist and author of the book Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It. She is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and appears on national television to discuss her articles and relevant topics in the news.

After graduating from Harvard College, Wallace began her journalism career at CBS “60 Minutes,” where she was part of a team that won The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. She is a Journalism Fellow at the The Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Jennifer serves on the board of the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Reviews

[Alan]

This is an excellent book that defines, explains, and explores a key idea about living a good life - mattering. I like the concept of mattering better than the idea of purpose because mattering is a social concept, involved in human relationships, whereas as purpose is often more a function of an individual.

The author, Jennifer Wallace, clearly and consistently examines 5 components of mattering in each of the chapters. These are “The Mattering Core”

Recognition: You and your actions are valued, and your absence would be felt.
Reliance: You feel needed because others depend on you.
Importance: You feel significant because you’re prioritized.
Ego Extension: You feel cared for because others are invested in your well-being.
Attunement: You feel deeply understood and meaningfully responded to.”

Each chapter explores a different time in our lives and different places where mattering is important. Each chapter has excellent examples of how mattering works in these different times and places. I highly recommend this well written book!

[Kathleen]

Nothing new. People need to be valued, have purpose, etc. But a whole book repeating this over and over?

[Peggy Gerovac]

Repetitive of concepts I search before.

[Anne Mulligan]

I thought this would be really
Basic, but this former CNN writer did a good job. She profiles people who figured out what made people matter in this world full of people with their heads stuck on phone and other screens.

I like the idea of atunement. I did this by audio and would like to re-read/listen and write things down that she emphasized.