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Why did we become strangers to each other? After thirty-eight years as a practising therapist, Martin Rothery has sat with the human cost of a specific kind of loss. Not the loss of a person or a relationship - the loss of the space between people. The community that dissolved. The neighbour whose name you do not know. The family dinner where two people who love each other can no longer agree on what is real. The comment section where a stranger hates you for something you have not done. In Strangers All Around, Rothery examines how we became strangers to each other - and what it is doing to us. He examines the dissolution of community and the contact infrastructure that used to put people together without anyone having to plan it. The algorithm that replaced belonging with tribalism. The death of shared reality. The polarisation that is not primarily a political phenomenon but a psychological one - the threat response conditioned into the population by an economy that profits from fear and outrage. And he examines the specific people who have become the most visible expressions of this landscape: the hater whose cruelty is grief for an unlived life, the troll whose power comes from your reaction, the antagonist who cannot afford to be wrong, and the pile-on whose collective hostility is the crowd performing its own suppression outward. This is not a book about other people. It is a book about the space between you and the people around you. About what closed it, what it costs, and what - specifically and honestly and without false optimism - can be done about it. The third book in the Strangers trilogy. Stands alone.

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