All The Lonely People: From the Richard and Judy bestselling author of Half a World Away comes a warm, life-affirming story – the perfect read for these times

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Along the way Hubert stumbles across a second chance at love, renews a cherished friendship and finds himself roped into an audacious community scheme that seeks to end loneliness once and for all . . . My first paid writing gig was for a listings magazine in Birmingham — (Actually my first unpaid writing gig was an interview with Kitchens of Distinction for Salford Student Magazine. I can’t begin to tell you how terrible it was.) She was all alone in an unfamiliar place. She was a single mom with no support system or job initially. Child care seemed to be one of her biggest hardships, which is how she first met Hubert. Ashley was an outgoing social person, so she craved ... - margiec

But when Rose announces she’ll be visiting from Australia in a few months’ time and can’t wait to meet and spend time with Hubert’s friends, he doesn’t know what he’ll do. Does he tell her the truth or does he spend the next few months trying to build the life he said he had? Oh my goodness! If you haven't read this wonderfully charming book, add it to your list. Not only was this a solid 5 stars, it will definitely be one of my most favorite reads this year. Another book I wish I could read again for the very first time. I loved it so, so much! Buried along with her name" seems to indicate that she was the last of her family, having no relatives, siblings or children of her own to continue the family bloodline, maybe she was the last remaining "Rigby" from her family circle and nobody left to carry the surname on. For Hubert, it was the death of his daughter that led him to a life of loneliness. Who in your life inspires you to live life to the fullest? A study published in 2010 using this scale estimated that 35% of Americans over 45 were lonely. Of these 45% had felt this way for at least six years; a further 32% for one to five years. In 2013 Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), by dint of asking a simple question, classed 25% of people aged 52 or over as “sometimes lonely” with an extra 9% “often lonely”.The truth is, Hubert has isolated himself in his home and each new day is just as empty as the last one. His only company is his cat, Puss. But, Hubert doesn't want Rose to worry so he keeps a journal of their conversations and the stories he tells her about his "busy active life" with his friends. So, now what? I started out thinking this was going to be a run-of-the-mill ‘lonely person makes friends and everything is wonderful’ story, but it is far more nuanced than that and offers food for thought for a post-Covid society. Well worth a read. Every May, the Mental Health Foundation hosts Mental Health Awareness Week. Now in its 22nd year, this annual event is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health. Each year, the Foundation sets the theme and organises and hosts the week, which has grown to become one of the biggest awareness weeks across the UK and globally. Loneliness has become the focus of a national conversation with many organisations and charities seeing it as a modern epidemic, despite us having more ways to communicate with each other than ever before in history. Type ‘loneliness’ into Google and you’ll get everyone from the Co-op to Age UK cropping up.

Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of Grand Central Publishing. There were 3 and now there are 2. And it's been that way for 30+ years. It seems that *1* is God-loving. All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle was such a special book. The story plot was completely engaging; it was funny, heartwarming, and so well written. The story begins with main character Hubert Bird, an 84 yo Jamaican widower living in London alone. With no friends and living a lonely solitary life, all he looked forward to on a weekly basis was a phone call from his daughter Rose, from Australia. Hubert for the last five years had created a complex story about his imaginary friends Dotty, Dennis and Harvey to keep his daughter from worrying about him. Now Rose wants to visit London, and Hubert only has a few days to make his imaginary friends into reality, which means Hubert has to open himself up to forge new friendships. Millions of people’s mental health are harmed by loneliness, yet more than one third (35%) of those surveyed say they would never admit to being lonely and one quarter (25%) say they feel ashamed about being lonely.However, you do not have to be on your own all the time to feel lonely. Many people feel lonely in a relationship or while spending time with friends or family. This is for all the single people, thinking that love has left them dry.” Yeah. What could be more heart-wrenching than being ignored by one person who could hardly care about how I chaliced her? Nothing follows. The guitars, keyboard, and the dismal vocals just had to fade. Please. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 22nd 1974 "Lonely People" by America entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 2nd, 1975 it peaked at #5 (for 1 week) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100... Yet loneliness is not especially a phenomenon of the elderly. The polling found no clear link between age and loneliness in America or Britain—and in Japan younger people were in fact lonelier. Young adults, and the very old (over-85s, say) tend to have the highest shares of lonely people of any adult age-group. Other research suggests that, among the elderly, loneliness tends to have a specific cause, such as widowhood. In the young it is generally down to a gap in expectations between relationships they have and those they want.

Loneliness can blight your life just as badly if you are 18, 38 or 78, but our analysis found that different life events tend to trigger the problem depending on your age. It makes sense to target help at people going through the kinds of challenging experiences that put people at risk, whether you are in your youth and leaving college; in mid life and going through a divorce; or in later life, having recently been bereaved. And we have to make sure we measure loneliness in a way that accurately captures its prevalence among people of all ages, from childhood to far beyond.” I skim-read some of this book and found it a bit tedious and not particularly good writing, not descriptive and a little shallow.Between January 5th and June 14th, 1975 there were 23 different records in a row that held the #1 spot on the Adult Contemporary chart for just one week; "Lonely People" was sixth in that string...