Reviews - All The Lonely People

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All The Lonely People

Mike Gayle

4.16 AVERAGE

jacobreedreads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful sad

kvcatnip's review against another edition

4.5

challenging hopeful inspiring

I knew this book would make me emotional, and I was right. That being said... I wasn't thrilled with the last 25%. Overall, I would still highly recommend this to everyone.

yvonnemcd's review against another edition

4.5

All the lonely people had me crying on multiple occasions. When I tell you I can't remember crying at anything in the last 5 years, this is not an exaggeration! This is how unemotional I am in general, so you know this is a tear jerker.

It made me so sad but yet so happy and really reminded me how we all can make a difference to other people's lives.

I took .5 off for the far-reaching aspects (in my opinion) of some topics ( I don't want to give spoilers) because it did lose me a bit at times.

If you haven't read it, I would highly recommend 👌

itsjustnats's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emianner's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

milenatadic's review against another edition

5.0

This book was not only heart-warming, but also heart-wrenching. It played with my emotions big time, but lucky for me, I like to ride the roller-coaster of emotions. It’s my favorite.

In this story, we follow an older Jamaican man, called Hubert Bird, who lives alone in Bromley (London) with his cat, Puss. After the death of his biggest love & late wife Joyce, the only communication Hubert does, is with his daughter Rose that lives in Australia. They talk on the phone each week, to fill each other on the everyday lives.
Hubert doesn't want to worry Rose about his loneliness, and his lack of human contact, so he makes up exciting scenarios of his day-to-day life, including his three best mates, that don't even exists. The problem occurs when Rose plans a trip back home to visit her dad. She wants to meet his friends.
Hubert has now only a couple of months to get back into the real world, and to cure his loneliness.

Switching between "Then" & "Now” chapters, we get to go along Hubert's journey from moving to England from Jamaica, and how hard that was under a time where racism was flourishing. We get to see what love and hard work feels like. We get ups and downs. We get lots of loneliness, but also a light in the end of the tunnel. Community..

mikbamford's review against another edition

5.0

It's 10 days into January and I still can see this being one of my favourite books of the year. I was afraid it would be too similar to A Man Called Ove, but it isn't! It's perfect in its own way and I can't recommend it enough.

Mike Gayle is one of the best contemporary authors out there - this is the second book I've read of his and it absolutely floored me. I cried a few times while reading this, which I wasn't expecting when I started it. Gayle humanizes people, I love the way he writes his characters, they are very well developed and so crucial to the plot. I love the way he writes dialogue - inner and between characters. I love the use of flashbacks.

Please read this book.