![]() By Day 5, “the Plague,” though still limited to Scotland, “is all anybody can talk about” in London. She contacts recently independent Scotland's public health officials, who dismiss her concerns. After a second man dies there two days later and more fall ill, attending physician Amanda, a wife and mother of two sons herself, senses approaching disaster. Five days later, on “Day 1,” a man dies for no clear reason in a Glasgow hospital. ![]() The novels opens in London on a deceptively breezy note as Catherine, a social anthropologist with a happy marriage and adorable 3-year-old son, avoids fertility treatment because she’s ambivalent about having a second child. Beginning in 2025, a Great Male Plague spreads around the world. ![]()
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