![]() Cue the goosebumps, because within a few weeks, someone is dead. ![]() ![]() We meet a young couple-Ciara and Oliver-who decide to enter lockdown together, even though they've been on only a couple of dates and each secretly feels a bit wary of the other. But into that conundrum stepped Catherine Ryan Howard, who took the opposite approach and with great success: Not only did she capture the bottled-up emotions and literal confines of quarantine, she also wove them into a pitch-perfect thriller that presents new revelations on page after page.ĥ6 Days situates itself in the jittery, almost otherworldly setting of Dublin just as the virus begins to seep ashore in Ireland. At the time, a lot of novelists decided against it: The global crisis was so rapidly-changing and immense that they feared it would overpower all other storylines. When COVID first struck, several authors I know grappled with the question of whether to acknowledge the pandemic in their upcoming novels. ![]()
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