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DEBUT Written at a feverish pace once her own children returned to school, London poet/playwright Pollard's exquisitely painful debut recaps the hellish first year of the COVID pandemic. COVID hits England just as the unnamed 45-year-old narrator, a British academic and translator, begins a novel about prophecies and Greek myths. As the lockdown drags on, she, her husband, and their 10-year-old son grow short-tempered and emotionally distant from one another. The nar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More