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All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness
'Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human' - Michael Harris, author of Solitude
An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved – all 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 utterly unique, they are all born out of the same desire for human connection.
As Carr interweaves these touching and powerful tales with his own personal narrative, he opens a window onto the inner lives of regular people – the forgotten, misplaced or misjudged – who all feel isolated in some way.
Sparking a profound conversation about a universal emotion, which may simply be an inevitable part of life in an increasingly disjointed world, he questions what we can do to build stronger human relationships, and to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved – all 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 utterly unique, they are all born out of the same desire for human connection.
As Carr interweaves these touching and powerful tales with his own personal narrative, he opens a window onto the inner lives of regular people – the forgotten, misplaced or misjudged – who all feel isolated in some way.
Sparking a profound conversation about a universal emotion, which may simply be an inevitable part of life in an increasingly disjointed world, he questions what we can do to build stronger human relationships, and to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 25, 2024
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July 2, 2024
“𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒍𝒅-𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚, 𝒎𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏, 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎."
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April 17, 2025
Author gives candid, empathetic and beautiful stories about loneliness and also speaks from the heart about his own personal history of loneliness -- from being a little kid in a disconnected family with a father with no heart to his time teaching English in Russia to his raising a son as a single parent. There are no answers in this book but some sort of solace that we all experience loneliness as part of being human. We are lonely because we don't have anyone to connect to or we can't be ourselves or feel known by others or we lose people we once loved. This is not a self help book but somehow reading these stories about others who experience the same kind of disconnection/sadness/loneliness was in itself a soothing balm.
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