Thursday, May 7, 2026

Burntcoat--#38 finished

This is a short kind of quick read.  It is about an artist in England and her life.  Her mother was a writer that suffers a brain aneurysm and struggles to re-gain her life.  The daughter is a pre-teen and basically has to learn to take care of herself and her mother, the dad can't take his wife's changed life & he left.  Now daughter is older and meets a man and becomes romantically involved, then a deadly virus strikes the world--not sure if idea came from Covid or if this was started before and just happened this way--book published in 2021 so could be either I guess.  Her and the boyfriend struggle through this virus with boyfriend succumbing to it and her falling sick but slowly recovers.  Life has changed.  I tough read at times and emotional in many ways.  A different sort of book, sometimes hard to follow but worth it as story and characters are worth the read.

There were no copies in PBS so I posted it right away and it has already been requested.  I will get it mailed off in the next few days. 

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