Three books about loneliness and isolation, ‘a modern epidemic’

• This One Wild and Precious Life, by Sarah Wilson, looks at ‘moral loneliness’, the severing of the ‘supply cord to connection, caring and doing the right thing by each other and the planet’
• A Biography of Loneliness, by Fay Bound Alberti, studies the ‘modern epidemic’ of searching for a soulmate while audiobook The Power of Ritual, by Casper ter Kuile, explains how the non-religious can create communities