" There was – will be – an outbreak of flu. There's one nearly every year, I know, but this one was a killer. And cruel. It took the old and the young. Anyone from twenty to fifty only seemed to get it mildly. Other people, the ones outside that age group, just dropped and died. It was that quick. ​‘My mother got it first. I’m glad, actually, that she went first. So she never knew … all public establishments closed. The country was at a standstill. I sat with my mother at the hospital until she died, "

― Jodi Taylor , Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)