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 of individualists, is living alone perceived as a