All The Lonely People pdf David Owen Free Download

All The Lonely People

David Owen resents the fact that he was not raised by wolves and was therefore robbed of a good story to tell at parties. He turned to fiction to compensate for his unremarkable existence. He studied creative writing at The University of Winchester, where he went on to teach for three years. David is the author of two novels: Panther (2015), which was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and The Fallen Children (2017). David works in the travel industry, and mostly thinks about biscuits.

ALSO BY DAVID OWEN

Panther

The Fallen Children

ATOM

First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Atom

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-349-00319-1

Atom

An imprint of

Little, Brown Book Group

Carmelite House

50 Victoria Embankment

London EC4Y 0DZ

An Hachette UK Company

www.hachette.co.uk

www.atombooks.co.uk

For Hannah,
who is verr good.

I woke up and I had a big idea,

to buy a new soul at the start of every year.

I paid up, and it cost me pretty dear.

Here’s a hymn to those that disappear.

— ‘Buying New Soul’, Porcupine Tree

I think this is why loneliness is a darker thing than just being alone. It’s a stillness that gives you a preview of death; it’s seeing the world carry on just fine without you in it.

—Hayley Campbell

You’re ridiculous, and men’s rights is nothing.

— Leslie Knope

1. A Cure for Empathy

2. Nothing and Nobody

3. The Peak of Human Ingenuity

4. Building a Snowman

5. Nesting Dolls

6. Hashtags and Heartbreaks

7. Eurydice

8. The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)

9. Us and Them