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Cargando... The second curepor Margaret Morgan
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Dark, thrilling and compulsively readable, The Second Cure is a provocative debut novel about control, female courage and belief, by screenwriter Margaret Morgan. A pandemic races through our world, changing people subtly but irrevocably. The first sign for Winnie is when she loses her faith. For Richard it's a violent outburst he never could have anticipated. Scientist Charlotte Zinn is close to a cure when her partner becomes infected. Overnight her understanding of the disease is turned upside down - could she actually be standing in the way of evolution? And reporter Brigid Bayliss is determined to uncover the dark truth behind Pastor Jack Effenberg's rapid rise to power, without getting caught in the murky underbelly of a church strengthened by the outbreak. Brigid and Charlotte find themselves on the frontline of a world splintering into far left and far right, with unexpected power to change the course of history. But at what cost? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Set in the near future where the religious right has taken over Queensland and engineers the secession of the northern part of that state to create a new nation called Capricornia. Morgan makes this seem all too plausible.
At the same time, a virus is sweeping the world, spread by cats. The virus has major effects on the human brain, leading to a variety of effects including, in some, intense synesthesia.
Charlotte Zinn is a scientist working on a cure. But when her artist partner becomes infected and celebrates his resultant synesthesia, she becomes conflicted. He and many others don’t want to be cured. Her partner’s sister is a reporter working in Queensland (and then Capricornia), trying to uncover the truth about the religious leadership of that place, a pursuit which involves her in great danger.
When Charlotte discovers that another common effect of the virus is to greatly reduce religious feelings, destroying the faith of many, she has to make some difficult decisions.
Really interesting novel, highly recommended. (