Join us every month in the Clocktower Café for a relaxed, friendly discussion on an art-related book as part of a programme of events around our current exhibition: The Essex House Tapestries.

For our next session, we will be reading something a little bit different - Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.

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About the book:

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis.

Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.