Book review: This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
This Devastating Fever (2022) took Australian author Sophie Cunningham 16 years to write. Dipping in and out of time in a fashion resembling its own conception, this original novel explores the life of Alice, a struggling author living through bushfires, pandemic lockdowns, and an ongoing climate crisis, painted against the backdrop of the previous century and the thinkers and writers that defined it – most notably, Leonard and Virginia Woolf. This Devastating Fever explores what it’s like to live through a time that feels like the end of days, followed by the realisation that those moments have happened before and will happen again.