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Jan 18, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Daniel K Schreiber |Reaktion Books |Nick Haslam

“I had increasingly been feeling as if something had gone wrong,” writes Daniel Schreiber in his affecting examination of living alone. As a younger man he hadn’t intended to wind up uncoupled but at a certain point that state became habitual. It wasn’t as if he had been left behind, unlucky in love. Instead, after a youthful flurry of relationships he began to seek out solitude and wondered if there was enough room in his life to accommodate a partner.

Jan 18, 2024 | inkl.com | Daniel K Schreiber |Reaktion Books

A good life? Writer Daniel Schreiber. Soeren Stache/dpa/Alamy“I had increasingly been feeling as if something had gone wrong,” writes Daniel Schreiber in his affecting examination of living alone. As a younger man he hadn’t intended to wind up uncoupled but at a certain point that state became habitual. It wasn’t as if he had been left behind, unlucky in love.