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It has already been written abundantly: this is the first real covid novel. The setting Sarah Moss has chosen is modest: a neighborhood in the Peak District, UK, November 2020, at the height of the panic about the epidemic, when everyone was in mandatory quarantine. Through protagonist Kate and three other voices, she illustrates how the disease also eats away psychologically at people who are already in a weak position (in Kate's case as a single mother of an adolescent son, having lost her job due to the epidemic). We are in the minds of the characters all the time, through the interior monologue technique, with which Moss highlights the vulnerability of the characters. Not badly done, but I didn't really felt connected. It's strange, but in 2024 covid seems like something from a very distant past, without too many consequences. But appearances may be deceiving? Rating 2.5 stars.