The best selling novel by stevan eldred-grigg is back
. . . with zombies!
. . . with zombies!
Zombie Pandemic Ravages New ZealandWe all know about the zombie virus that ravaged New Zealand between the two world wars, but little has been written about how the biters it created affected the lives of women, especially working class women. Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best selling novel about twin sisters growing up during the depression has been updated by Helen Mae Innes to include the previously ignored and despised minority, zombies.
A black comedy, the story shows us how the sisters, their sharp and shrewd mother and many other women struggle to avoid being bitten by biters, care gingerly for hunches who don't want to eat their brains (yet) and watch as the 'cured' lurkers start to take their jobs. Even in times of pandemics girls still grow up, worry about boys, go out to work, get married and have babies, all while trying to keep their brains safe inside their skulls. At the beginning the twins are small, fearful and helpless. By the end of the story they're armed and ready to go after the enemy. But who is the real enemy? A novel about survival in extraordinary times, Oracles and Miracles and Zombies is an inspiration to women of all generations. |
The time between the two World Wars was dominated by poverty and pandemic. The virus which surfaced in 1918 turned the infected into biters and hunches, and the later 'cure' turned biters into lurkers. But who is the most dangerous?
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Biters Biters have been infected by a virus and want to eat your brains. They don't talk much but they'll eat your ear off.
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HunchesHunches have been infected but don't chase you down the street. They're slow and hunched over but mostly harmless. Just keep them fed.
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LurkersThe government discovered a 'cure' which turns biters into lurkers. Lurkers are passive, quiet, and a cheap source of labour.
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UninfectedThere's not much life in the biters but it's not much of a life for the uninfected either. They still have to find money for food, for rent, for barbed wire fences, and for sharp knives.
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