"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. This is a muted but moving novel about the persistence of the ordinary during extraordinary times." - Financial Times Yet members of the local community still find time to disapprove of for their association. "James skillfully conveys the suppressed panic and claustrophobia induced by the sudden and deadly prevalence of the disease. James registers the tiny details of suffering and the book ends almost like a fever breaking, showing that such a scourge can randomly take out anything in its path, leaving behind misery, but also human dignity." - Time Out London (four stars) As the crisis peaks, class expectations crumble and an unlikely love story develops. "This restrained and unnerving novel gains strength like the virus it describes. A finely written and affecting novel." - Guardian (UK) Here, James's isolated protagonists prepare the ground admirably for their individual witness and response to the calamity. Reina James (born 1947) is a British author, singer and actress.She has written two novels, the first of which won the Society of Authors'. However, the true terrain of the novelist is arguably the response of her characters to their afflictions. "James graphically describes a plague that wiped out families and overwhelmed the war-weakened infrastructure. Sharp glimpses of human nature scattered over a detailed period panorama." - Kirkus Reviews Society trembles on the brink of breakdown and doctors, vicars, and other ordinary souls grapple with the practicalities of the day, while the government contributes very little. "Love in the time of the Spanish flu epidemic.
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