Strangers All Around: Why we became strangers to each other - and what it is doing to us

The third Strangers book moves from the gap between rulers and ruled, and the gap inside the self, to the gap between people. Strangers All Around looks at what happened to neighbourhoods, community, friendship, public life and the ordinary social contact that once made people feel located in a world with other human beings. Martin Rothery examines loneliness, digital substitution, fractured attention, fear, tribal identity and the gradual disappearance of small forms of belonging that used to happen without being scheduled. This is not nostalgia for an imaginary golden age. It is an attempt to name what changed, what the change is doing to us, and what genuine connection still requires.