The Virago Book of Friendship Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) author of How the World

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and of course his brother - the sculptor and typographer Eric Gill

The Virago Book of Friendship Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) author of How the WorldFriendship has never been more talked about. Some of this has to do with the internet (the perils of WhatsApp groups, and of ghosting), and some, with the realisation that loneliness in our society is increasing. Friendship is being written about, and researched, seriously, by therapists and scientists alike. We all now know of the importance of friendship. But it's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity; its singular ease; the way it