Coping with / advice about loneliness / solitude

Finding Your Self at the Heartbreak Hotel

You can’t move past the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain.

This helpful guide provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionise the way we overcome loss, and seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves.

Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death

‘The most life-affirming book ever written about death.’ Sandi Toksvig

‘One of the most powerful and helpful books about grief that you will ever read.’ Anita Anand

‘Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to make it welcome.’

Breathe

‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker

‘A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief’ Mail on Sunday

Veronika Decides to Die: New edition

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.

Making the Cat Laugh

One woman’s journal of single life on the margins.

A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.

A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries and Recluses

A man that studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in the Wilderness’ – Thomas Traherne. Celebrated novelist Isabel Colegate explores the lives and works of those who’ve followed the call of solitude, from Lao Tzu and the Desert Fathers to Wordsworth and Thoreau.

Solitude

‘Brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone … Heartening’ Anita Brookner, Spectator

‘Storr is an incapable of writing an uninteresting paragraph’ Sunday Times’

How can we find value in spending time alone?

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