A Usual Lunacy

by D.G. Compton

It makes people positively ache with happiness. It puts the roses back in their cheeks and the itch back in their blood. "It" is the Scholes Virus - proper medical term for what used to be called, out of mawkish ignorance but with uncanny prescience, the "love bug". Professor Trevor Scholes has discovered, isolated and classified every variety of the infection that now bears his name. One variety, B79/K, is so rare that the odds are fifty thousand to one against two compatible carriers meeting. So of course Giles Cranston and Tamsin McGillivray meet . . .

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

215 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1978

About the author

David Guy Compton has published science fiction as D.G. Compton. He has also published crime novels as Guy Compton and Gothic fiction as Frances Lynch.

Reviews

[Stephen Rowland · Rating 4 out of 5]

3½. Surprisingly raunchy yet hilarious novel by Compton. I'm shocked I liked it as much as I did, considering I hate books containing a lot of sex, books that are comedic or lighthearted in tone, and all those qualities are present in an exceedingly British fashion, yet Compton pulls it off. Enjoyable if nothing else.

[Marko]

I have the german edition: Die uebliche Verrueckheit