Clift, Bethany
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK filmmaker, screenwriter and author whose first novel, Last One at the Party (2021), is set in a Near Future world where the Covid-19 Pandemic has been succeeded by a second, far more devastating plague known as 6DM: six days being the maximum time a sufferer can survive. The protagonist, who may be the only human being left (see Last Man), attempts to shape her prospective existence through vividly-narrated memories of her life in a time and place when anticipative stress may have been high (and in the event justified) but life was still complex enough to provide her with something like a balanced view of what might be a future not entirely alone in a dying planet. [JC]
Bethany Clift
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- Last One at the Party (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2021) [hb/]
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