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Mythology as a way of meaning making for the years of 2020/2021. It‘s still tough to read about reflections about lockdown and the early days of the covid 19 pandemic, still ups my heart rate to hear the pain and confusion and suffering we all went through in different shapes and shades.

Highly recommend!! This short novel captures the fear, anxiety, helplessness, and boredom of Covid. Beautiful structure and I learned a lot about Greek myths. 4.5 🌟 would not be suprised to see this on the Womens Prize list.

Another good albeit totally different, set in 2020 with the world facing the threat of Covid. It reminds you of the lockdown and how difficult it was going into unknown territory. Its written in short chapters, funny and enjoyable read.

It wasn't bad, but I wouldn't recommend it. I was lured in by the Jenny Offill comparison, and I see where they get that, but Offill is way better at that style IMO.

4.5☆ A perceptive account of the messiness of being human. Wonderful debut! Labeled as fiction, it very much reads as auto fiction. I flew through this and found it hard to put down Pollard's words. If reading about the pandemic has been touch and go for you, it has for me too, trust me pick this up for the writing quality alone! It's sharp, witty and I copied down so many fabulous lines! If you enjoy Jenny Offill's style you might enjoy this too!

Y'all, this book. It's everything we felt in the early days of the pandemic synthesized and laid bare on the page. A family faces lockdown, uncertainty, and loss. The structure of the novel is great fun (Pollard is a poet), with each chapter centered around a type of prophetic seeing.

The pandemic novel I didn‘t know I was waiting for. Clare Pollard‘s book is extremely smart and also very funny, but touches a deep vein on uncertain despair that most will recognize from the early days of COVID. Thought-provoking and rather brilliant. Added bonus (for me): it‘s terribly English and made me quite homesick. Highly recommended. Coming this August.