**AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS**A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingBluets winds its way through depression divinity alcohol and desire visiting along the way with famous blue figures including Joni Mitchell Billie Holiday Yves Klein Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelo