Alone

''A book to love and cherish''
Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living

''A beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker''
Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life

''Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness''
Sarah Bakewell, Guardian

At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society ...