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The Hoffmann Plague: Sisters
Seventeen years after a devastating pandemic killed over 99% of the UK population, a small, close-knit community of survivors farms the land near Bexhill-on-Sea.
Three young members of the community, feeling restless and keen to see the world beyond the farm, embark on a road trip across Sussex, on a quest for adventure, excitement and love. Being on the road in a lawless country can have its dangers, though. Can they survive long enough to find what they are looking for?
A legacy story, The Hoffmann Plague: Sisters explores how life has evolved nearly two decades after the apocalypse, and how the next generation might view the world that has gone.
Three young members of the community, feeling restless and keen to see the world beyond the farm, embark on a road trip across Sussex, on a quest for adventure, excitement and love. Being on the road in a lawless country can have its dangers, though. Can they survive long enough to find what they are looking for?
A legacy story, The Hoffmann Plague: Sisters explores how life has evolved nearly two decades after the apocalypse, and how the next generation might view the world that has gone.
360 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2021
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About the author
Tony Littlejohns
5 books1 followerTony Littlejohns was born in north London in the early 60s, the youngest of three siblings. He worked in engineering for twenty-one years after leaving school, but left after his divorce in 2001 to pursue other endeavours. From his voluntary work with Raleigh International between 2001 and 2006 he developed an interest in survival and bushcraft, having spent months living in the jungle while working on projects in Belize, and later work in Chile.
After fourteen rather itinerant years, moving around the UK for a variety of jobs, he settled in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, in 2015, where he now lives. He has had a love of writing and poetry for thirty years and always dreamed of writing a novel one day. One morning in late 2016, while walking on the beach after watching an apocalyptic film the night before, the first lines of a story came to him.
The Hoffmann Plague is his first novel.
After fourteen rather itinerant years, moving around the UK for a variety of jobs, he settled in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, in 2015, where he now lives. He has had a love of writing and poetry for thirty years and always dreamed of writing a novel one day. One morning in late 2016, while walking on the beach after watching an apocalyptic film the night before, the first lines of a story came to him.
The Hoffmann Plague is his first novel.
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June 20, 2021
A good second book
I read The Hoffman Plague quite a long time after it was published so the sequel Sisters I read only a few weeks after. Sisters develops on the characters and community established in the first book and is set approximately 15 years later. The bulk of the story is the interaction of the community with others established further afield in Sussex.
The second book has taken a lot more thought than the first largely because it is set so much later and many of the items from before the plague are no longer usable, so communities have had to become self-sufficient and produce their food. Alternatively, a few individuals have more of a hunter-gatherer existence and travel around foraging or stealing food.
Consequently travelling even relatively small distances has become dangerous and that's why the communities have had so little contact.
The characters are better developed in this book than in the first, although the dialogue is still a bit wooden at times and many of the characters seem quite alike.
The real strength of the book though is the denouement and imagination of what it would be like to live after the collapse of civilisation in this corner of England, and some of the problems and potential solutions to people working and living together again.
I'd imagine there will be another book set roughly another 15 years in the future when society/travel has become more established. The further the distance from the current day though the harder it is to write!
Both books are well recommended, especially if you live in England!
I read The Hoffman Plague quite a long time after it was published so the sequel Sisters I read only a few weeks after. Sisters develops on the characters and community established in the first book and is set approximately 15 years later. The bulk of the story is the interaction of the community with others established further afield in Sussex.
The second book has taken a lot more thought than the first largely because it is set so much later and many of the items from before the plague are no longer usable, so communities have had to become self-sufficient and produce their food. Alternatively, a few individuals have more of a hunter-gatherer existence and travel around foraging or stealing food.
Consequently travelling even relatively small distances has become dangerous and that's why the communities have had so little contact.
The characters are better developed in this book than in the first, although the dialogue is still a bit wooden at times and many of the characters seem quite alike.
The real strength of the book though is the denouement and imagination of what it would be like to live after the collapse of civilisation in this corner of England, and some of the problems and potential solutions to people working and living together again.
I'd imagine there will be another book set roughly another 15 years in the future when society/travel has become more established. The further the distance from the current day though the harder it is to write!
Both books are well recommended, especially if you live in England!
July 5, 2021
Great sequel
I loved the Hoffman Plague, and was so pleased to find this sequel. It's like meeting old friends for a good long catch up after a long time.
Very much in the vein of the first story, a nice "cosy catastrophe" with an upbeat ending. Just what I love.
I loved the Hoffman Plague, and was so pleased to find this sequel. It's like meeting old friends for a good long catch up after a long time.
Very much in the vein of the first story, a nice "cosy catastrophe" with an upbeat ending. Just what I love.
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