Daniel Schreiber

"A book to love and cherish" Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living "A beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker" Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life "Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness" Sarah Bakewell, Guardian At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has...

A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ALONE 'Such a skilled and engaging writer' Deborah Levy 'Schreiber's prose is gorgeous, practically silken' Lauren Groff Nothing in this world lasts forever. Exhausted and isolated, numbed to his feelings by all-consuming work, Daniel Schreiber sought escape in Venice: the iconic city that we both love and pre-emptively mourn, as it gradually sinks beneath...