A review by claire_fuller_writer
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

5.0

I asked for this for Christmas as research for my third novel, which has a lonely woman in it, and I found it so wonderful. I learned many new things, thought about lots of things I'd never thought about before, went and looked at art by artists I'd never heard of before, and all the time it felt as if I wasn't actually reading. Laing's style is so fluid and easy. The only thing that stopped this getting five stars was that I would have liked more about Laing's personal experiences of loneliness, but perhaps there simply wasn't any more to say.
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