Lockdown Observed

This is not a book review site, but I recently had the privilege of reading Jenny Bathurst’s Lockdown Observed: becoming an adult without leaving the house, which is a weekly account of her lockdown experience from 18 March 2020 to 3 April 2021.

It’s not going to set the world on fire and I’m not telling you to rush out and buy it (although you can), I’m simply going to recount how enjoyable I found it.

Jenny, an 18-year-old student who lives and attends school in Sussex, was asked by a ne...