One Of Time Magazine''s 100 Must-read Books Of 2020 And An Ft Best Book Of The Yearthought-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''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 Standard Deeply 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 Timefrom The Critically Acclaimed Author Of Feel book, Swing Time, White Teeth And Many More''there Will Be Many Books Written About The Year 2020: Historical, Analytic, Political And Comprehensive Accounts. This Is Not Any Of Those - The Year Isn''t Half-way Done. What I''ve Tried To Do Is Organize Some Of The Feelings And Thoughts That Events, So Far, Have Provoked In Me, In Those Scraps Of Time The Year Itself Has Allowed.