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This devastating fever / Sophie Cunningham.

By: Publication details: Ultimo, NSW : Ultimo Press, 2022.Description: 313 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781761150937
  • 9781761151521 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • This devastating fever : a novel
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
Summary: Sometimes you need to delve into the past to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Wolf. When she stood on the Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of the new millennium, she had only two thoughts, One was : the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was : is Y2K going to be a thing. But there were worse things to come. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury Set, colonial administrator, publisher and husband of one of the most famous English writers of the last hundred years becomes something else altogether.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian General Fiction | Set in Melbourne - General Fiction | Popular in 2023 - General Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction CUN Available 071335
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Scheduled to be published September 2022.

Sometimes you need to delve into the past to make sense of the present. Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Wolf. When she stood on the Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of the new millennium, she had only two thoughts, One was : the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was : is Y2K going to be a thing. But there were worse things to come. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague. Uncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury Set, colonial administrator, publisher and husband of one of the most famous English writers of the last hundred years becomes something else altogether.

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