“Last One At The Party” by Bethany Clift (2021)

“‘Fuck you!’ Those are the very last words that I spoke to another living person.”

Well, I knew this day would come. Here is the first book I’ve read that actively mentions Covid-19. I sometimes forget that it’s all happening still, or what really did happen. I don’t think we’ve ever really processed it: a whole planet, traumatised. A lot of what’s happened since makes a lot more sense somehow when you put it like that, I think. But it’s part of humanity’s story now, as locked in as the Black De...