The Gardens of Winter

by William Lady

Visions of T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland” come to life in 1918 as the World War ends, “not with a bang, but a whimper,” and the first global influenza pandemic descends on the world’s survivors. More than twenty million will perish worldwide in a matter of months. The Gardens of Winter follows the lives of three friends as they are transformed attempting to save one another from an invisible and deadly advisary. After leaving the disturbing sights of the city, they are seemingly safe and isolated in the snowbound winter of Vermont’s Green Mountains. They soon find the refuge is still vulnerable as primal elements and the deadly influenza threaten their minds and ultimately their lives. The ordeal gives birth to a new vision and purpose in life for the only survivor.

334 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2009