![]() ![]() There’s an explanatory note from Sweeney-Baird explaining that she wrote it before the real one struck, although there might have been some last-minute edits – there’s a single reference to “social distancing” which sits oddly given the disease she describes. ![]() The End of Men is unlucky in being published at a time when we are all armchair experts on what actually happens in a pandemic. The novel follows a number of different characters in brief chapters where they recount their experiences of the pandemic and how their lives have changed. By the end of the pandemic, only one in ten men has survived. The End of Men is the story of a near-future pandemic in which there is a flu-like virus which is fast-spreading and deadly – but only to men. ![]()
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