![]() ![]() My food stores were well built up within days of the first Covid rumours, that was for sure! ![]() So when, just a few months later, we experienced our very own IRL pandemic, it was hard not to think back to the utter chaos Roberts depicted in Year One and be just a little bit afraid. There were many times I had to sit in the car for a few minutes when I arrived at work, in order to listen to ‘just a little bit more’, as each subsequent chapter built up the drama and tension. I read (listened) to this first in late 2019, when I was coming to the end of a job with an hour-each-way commute. In the first couple of chapters, she tells of the rapid spread of the virus, and the ensuing breakdown of civilised society, as hospitals, communications networks and supply chains become overwhelmed and then break down. ![]() ![]() Written and released in 2017, the world had experienced a couple of viral outbreaks which had threatened to spread wildly - swine flu, avian bird flu - and perhaps these influenced or inspired Roberts in the writing of the book. As the family depart and each head away to their own destinations, they carry with them the beginning of a deadly virus which will soon spread across the globe. She’s brilliant for the rest of it though, so I’ll forgive her) with a family gathering to celebrate Hogmanay and the start of a new year. It begins on a farm in Dumfries, Scotland (and features a truly shocking Scottish accent or two on the part of the Audible narrator. Year One is the first in a trilogy: The Chronicles Of The One. ![]()
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