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Sophie Cunningham's pandemic novel admits literature can't save us – but treasures it for trying

  • Written by Meg Brayshaw, John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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“How good are novels!” So thinks protagonist Alice Fox in This Devastating Fever, the third novel from former publisher Sophie Cunningham. Alice is preparing to chair a panel at a writers’ festival, just as Covid-19 hits the headlines in March 2020.

The exclamation is slightly hysterical: do books and stories...

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