Michael Barnes
Firstly I was promised Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague, and whilst those things did happen they were not quite the apocalyptic reckoning I was expecting.
I should have known when the 'This Devastating Fever' referred to love, or maybe lust according to the conjured shade of Leonard Woolf husband to Virginia Woolf, and not some comet borne end times disease.
Sophie Cunningham novel has been deservedly praised for its originality and style and weaving the protagonist Alice and author struggling to bring her novel together and the story of Leonard and Virginia Woolf whose own timeline is explored, and even intrude into Alice's.
My own personal taste but I would have like to read more about Alice's experiences in contemporary Australia but that's because I am a contemporary Australian but I think Sophie Cunningham has done an enviable job weaving these disparate strand into a remarkable cloth.
Firstly I was promised Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague, and whilst those things did happen they were not quite the apocalyptic reckoning I was expecting.
I should have known when the 'This Devastating Fever' referred to love, or maybe lust according to the conjured shade of Leonard Woolf husband to Virginia Woolf, and not some comet borne end times disease.
Sophie Cunningham novel has been deservedly praised for its originality and style and weaving the protagonist Alice and author struggling to bring her novel together and the story of Leonard and Virginia Woolf whose own timeline is explored, and even intrude into Alice's.
My own personal taste but I would have like to read more about Alice's experiences in contemporary Australia but that's because I am a contemporary Australian but I think Sophie Cunningham has done an enviable job weaving these disparate strand into a remarkable cloth.