All the Lonely People
conversations on loneliness
$31.03
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2025
Summary
Finding Connection: Stories of Loneliness and Hope
An intimate portrait of loneliness, Finding Connection sees psychologist Dr. Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with the young and old, single parents, carers, teenagers, and the bereaved. Their heartfelt stories are shared over countless cups of tea.
In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms, and kitchens, Carr discovers that while each of their stories is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005557 |
| Author: | Sam Carr |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
In this elegant and fascinating book the taboo of loneliness is lifted. Sam Carr invites us into the lives of the lonely, and also into his own. His encounters — empathetic, enlightening, deeply human — help us to look deeply at a state of being that so many have come to fear. – Michael Harris, author of Solitude and The End of Absence
About The Author
Sam Carr
Dr Sam Carr is a psychologist and social scientist with the Department of Education and Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He was the director of The Loneliness Project, a partnership between the University of Bath and Guild Living (a later-living retirement community provider). He has written extensively in the media about his research and has spoken about it on local and national radio, as well as being an academic expert on various television documentaries. Sam lives in rural Wiltshire with his son and their cat. All the Lonely People is his first book.
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