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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
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Artikel-Nr:
9781911547846
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.01.2021
Seiten:
214
Autor:
Barbara Comyns
Gewicht:
245 g
Format:
198x132x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, quacking their approval as they sail around the room. What about my rose beds? demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself . . . then the butcher slits his throat . . . and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?Through it all, Comyns unique voice weaves a text as
At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the windows and Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden. But the flood is only the beginning of the village's troubles. All of a sudden, the miller goes mad and as the village is afflicted by a mysterious virus, the villagers begin dying one by one. The newspaper asks Who will be smitten by the fatal madness next?'