Sarah Cooper

If you missed it, here’s Chapter One. On a quiet Sunday morning at home, Susanna watched Trevor with resigned contentment. They were not as happy as they once were. Still, her love for him felt settled. Theirs was a tall but modest merchant house, built from stone with two oriel windows that jutted out over a quiet cobblestone corner in the heart of Colchester. The most recent plague had passed, and with it the worst of the poverty.

“It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.” - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” - Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon In the end, it was the islanders who survived. The cattlemen, the gardeners, the keepers of hens. The ones who could conjure bread from grain and light from tallow.

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