
This is not any of those - the year isn't half-way done.

'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. 'As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one' Evening Standardĭeeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our timeįrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more Thought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers

One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the Year
