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Only time will tell if there’ll be a Great Pandemic Novel

9 October 2021

9:00 AM

9 October 2021

9:00 AM

Burntcoat Sarah Hall

Faber, pp.240, 12.99

We had been dreading it like (forgive me) the plague: the inevitable onslaught of corona-lit. Fortunately, the first few titles out of the gate have been in capable hands. Zadie Smith reflected on lockdown in Intimations, a slim volume of personal essays; the virus featured in Ali Smith’s Orwell Prize-winning Summer; and Sarah Moss imagines a lockdown hike gone awry in her forthcoming novel The Fell.

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