Reviewers don’t often highlight the process of reviewing, for the good reason that it is usually mundane: receive review copy, read book, write about it. The circumstances of this review are somewhat different, however.
I am reviewing Solved from a PDF file, not because it is convenient but because I am writing in the sixth week of UK lockdown caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic and it isn’t currently possible to get a physical copy of the book from the NI offices in Oxford to my home in the North East. It is either ironic or apposite that Andrew Wear’s book is an ambitious attempt to examine a range of global problems and the solutions put forward by various countries, as outlined in his rather unwieldy subtitle.
