2016

‘This is a book that vividly, wonderfully, stirringly defies categorisation. It is a story, a poem, an oral history, a series of arguments about an epoch, and who and what we are becoming. Sarah Hesketh has done something truly original – brave and also hugely engaging.’ – Fergal Keane
‘Sarah Hesketh’s work is an epic for our times, composed of luminous fragments from the lives of the ordinary and less ordinary.’ – Sasha Dugdale
‘Encompassing the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the deaths of Jo Cox, David Bowie and Carrie Fisher – as well as the death of Hesketh’s own father - 2016 subtly builds into a moving study of grief, and the solace to be found in other people.’ – Clare Pollard
‘This book gives the rare opportunity to blink through the eyes of those with whom we may not ordinarily agree. I defy any reader to walk away without a renewed perspective on the events of 2016.’ – Tracy King
‘The mosaic technique lays bare the raw material – the same units of speech – from which all opinions are formed. And as with the best pieces of literature based on transcribed speech an accumulative effect takes hold: it becomes a choral piece.' – Caroline Clark