Unputdownable!
Margaret Morgan’s vision of Australia in the grip of a pandemic is too close for comfort. As I read of religious zealots taking over Queensland, outlawing gay marriage, abortion, and just about every advance made in the last 100 years, I kept thinking - oh yeah - this could sooo easily happen.
JFK nailed it: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
But the characters in Morgan’s novel do do something - and you just want to cheer!
This novel won on all fronts for me: it’s plot is original, not just another grim unrealistic dystopian book; the characters have real depth and although flawed, you can’t help but empathise with them all (well not quite all of them!).
The science (and be warned, there is quite a bit of it) is well explained without sounding like Biology 101 and I think I understood most of it, which is quite an accomplishment!
This is Margaret Morgan’s first novel and it’s a cracker! Highly recommended.