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Another time, another plague It’s buboes not bubbles that occupy The Plague Letters. Kate Griffin talks to its author about past (and present) horrors 14 May, 2021 — By Kate Griffin Detail from a copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel (Dr Beak), a plague doctor in 17th-century Rome Despairing medics are baffled by a deadly epidemic. Wealthy Londoners abandon the city for their country retreats. Those who remain go warily about their business; one eye on the mounting death tolls, the other on neighbours who flout the rules of quarantine. If this sounds horribly familiar, it’s a quirk of fate that in Vikki Valentine’s hugely entertaining novel

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