Information about the author
Olivia Laing is a widely recognized writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze, and New York Times. She is a Yaddo and MacDowell fellow and was the Writer in Residence at the British Library in 2014. Her first book, To the River, was nominated for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was nominated for the Costa Biography Award in 2013 and the Gordon Burn Prize in 2014. The Lonely City was nominated for the Gordon Burn Prize in 2016. She lives in Cambridge.

Blurb
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her thirties, she realized she was living with loneliness every day. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of feelings.