{"product_id":"9781761151491","title":"This Devastating Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003eSometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a thing? Y2K was not a thing. But there were worse disasters to come. Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncertain of what to do she picks up an unfinished project and finds herself trapped with the ghosts of writers past. What began as a novel about a member of the Bloomsbury Set, colonial administrator, publisher and husband of one the most famous English writers of the last hundred years becomes something else altogether.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplex, heartfelt, darkly funny and deeply moving, this is Sophie Cunningham's most important book to date - a dazzlingly original novel about what it's like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, and how we can find comfort and answers in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JUST BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42971314487411,"sku":"9781761151491","price":85.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/this-devastating-fever.jpg?v=1744116056","url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/products\/9781761151491","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}