"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...

"Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They've never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space--especially now that she's stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. But living with Mother isn't for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie moves in. Old wounds fester; new ones open. Grace starts having nightmares about...

International crime investigator, Mark Dobson, has been, tasked by a US biomedical research company to investigate missing virus samples. With outbreaks of a fatal virus infection already cropping up in Asia and Africa the investigation quickly turns to find a virologist with extreme views on human population control, who has created a new virus, 'Malthus A', and a company planning to spread the virus in return for profits from ineffective treatments...

Pandemic-stressed families breathe slowly. We are lockdown survivors. How does one family react to lockdown? From New York to London, Oxford, the Cotswolds, Belfast, Bellagio, Byron Bay and Wuhan, four siblings and their families share common experiences of fear, anxiety and isolation. Yet, resilience and a strength of spirit prevail as new forms of meaning are found. The story tells of intriguing, touching responses to the impact of isolation on...