RaveIrish Times (IRE)Schama pulls delightfully diverse strands...and ties them into a neat bow ... The book delivers. The scope starts wide but sharpens its focus quickly, with Schama cleverly restricting his analysis to three major epidemics and roughly a hundred year span ... Surprisingly, given it was clearly written under the exigencies of lockdown, reading this book did not trigger Covid fatigue. In contrast, it felt oddly edifying to have our pandemic placed proportionately in historical context ... There is much to learn from this urgent and endlessly erudite book.
Lindsey Fitzharris
RaveIrish Times (IRE)Fitzharris is a gifted storyteller and delights in just about the right amount of detail ... lived up to the promise of the prologue. Buy this book (locally) and you too will have a book on your hands.
