UNDER THE HORNBEAMS IS Astrange book, but then it’s a book about a strange situation in a very strange time. Emma Tarlo’s account of two “hobos”, which is what they are most comfortable being called, living under a hornbeam tree in Regent’s Park during Covid, captures the claustrophobic horror of the oddest period that we are ever likely to live through.
It starts with Lockdown being announced. Tarlo, an anthropologist who has previously written a highly-acclaimed
