Even before social distancing, loneliness was becoming the defining condition of the 21st century. But, argues academic and broadcaster Noreena Hertz, it is also one that we have the power to reverse. In her international bestseller The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect, she combines a decade of research with first-hand reporting, taking in smartphone addiction, policies that place self-interest over the collective good and Japanese nursing home residents knitting for their robot caregivers. With bold solutions for individuals, businesses and governments, the woman The Observer called ‘one of the world’s leading thinkers’ joins City Editor of the Daily Mail Alex Brummer.

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