'This book brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone… It is heartening to find a psychiatrist of Dr Storr's eminence diverging from the received wisdom'ANITA BROOKNER, Spectator'This is a short book, but so rich in ideas, and presented with such a telling combination of gentleness and authority, that it is also exceptionally absorbing and thought-provoking'CLAIRE TOMALIN, Observer'Storr is an incapable of writing an uninteresting paragraph'NORMAN STONE, Sunday Times'This is an important, even revolutionary book. If it saves naturally non-sociable people from anxiety about ‘not belonging’ and enables them to come to terms with their solitude it will have done a notable human service'ERIC CHRISTIANSEN, Independent