Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown

As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs of the eternal human desire to communicate, even as face-to-face contact became impossible. When restrictions temporarily eased, writer James Attlee began ringing doorbells in his hometown of Oxford. On doorsteps and park benches, on council estates and amid genteel terraces, he recorded the voices of those briefly emerging from isolation, winning the trust of rainbow painters and anti-vaxxers, a Covid nurse, an LGBTQ+ artist, a VE Day celebrator, Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as frontline workers in a bakery and a supermarket. Their words, Attlee's pithy observations and sixteen pages of his photographs make Under the Rainbow a unique record of an extraordinary year, and a tribute to creativity and resilience in desperate times.

Title - Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown

Edition -

Author - James Attlee

ISBN 13 - 9781913505066

Imprint - And Other Stories

Publisher - And Other Stories

Date Published - 13/05/2021

Prize -

No. of pages - 224

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x mm

Weight - g

Languages - English