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THIS DEVASTATING FEVER
Alice had not expected to spend the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of the millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a thing? Y2K was not a thing. But, as it turned out, there were other things. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. Plague. Twenty years later, as Alice flees the worst firestorms in Australia's short history, she imagines herself a soldier in the war against climate change then promptlylike most humans on the planetfinds herself locked down by COVID. 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 colonial administrator, journalist, publisher and husband of one the most famous English writers of the twentieth century becomes something else altogether.
Split between current times and episodes of Leonard Woolf's life in the early part of the last century, the book is lively, biting, and very entertaining, with some wonderful inside-publishing scenes that made me laugh out loud (the protagonist's agent is fierce!). Of course, Virginia makes an appearance, as does most of the Bloomsbury set, and Sophie uses their lives as a brilliant counterpoint to what we're experiencing today.
Sophie Cunningham is a Melbourne-based author, academic and writing teacher. She is the author of six books including the novels Geography (2004) and Bird (2008).
Split between current times and episodes of Leonard Woolf's life in the early part of the last century, the book is lively, biting, and very entertaining, with some wonderful inside-publishing scenes that made me laugh out loud (the protagonist's agent is fierce!). Of course, Virginia makes an appearance, as does most of the Bloomsbury set, and Sophie uses their lives as a brilliant counterpoint to what we're experiencing today.
Sophie Cunningham is a Melbourne-based author, academic and writing teacher. She is the author of six books including the novels Geography (2004) and Bird (2008).
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Published 2022-09-01 by Ultimo Press (Hardie Grant) |