Really good dystopian/post-apocalyptic novel about a world devastated by a pandemic that kills 99 per cent of the population. Quite a complex narrative that darts about across the timeline, pre- and post-pandemic, and some implausible link-ups between the characters that survive...but it doesn't matter, this is brilliant writing, and full of menace and danger without any need for graphic descriptions of death or violence.
Most of all it brought the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic back to me; our pandemic was not nearly as terrible as the one in the book, but in the early days we didn't know how bad it was going to be. I've been dreaming about our pandemic, and disasters and terrorist attacks, ever since I read it.
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