Section Sportive Foot Intimations. An urgently timely, deeply personal and powerfully moving series of essays on the experience of lockdown from one of the most clear sighted and essential writers of our time. There will be many books written about the year 2020historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those. Written in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, as the global situation changed almost hourly, Intimations is a series of six deeply personal essays responding to the ever evolving experience of lockdown. Crafted with Zadies trademark intelligence, wit and style but also suffused with a striking intimacy and tenderness, these essays attempt to organise the feelings and thoughts that the events of 2020 so far have provoked. A vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love, Intimations is an essential book in extraordinary times.