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This isn't a book about the history of TB or, what i wanted, a book about how this disease has shaped history. It is about an African TB child sufferer called Henry and the novelist Green becoming obsessed with TB. There is a bit of history, but much more modern day, which is important and should have been an article to explore lower income countries suffering when we consider it curable in the higher income nations.

Pg. 25 In a section about the 1940s - "Industrial production during the Great Depression lagged amid the economic crisis spurred by the protracted conflict." This is entirely false- the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Dust Bowl left the 1930s as a time of great economic depression known as The Great Depression. The Second World War lead to many jobs, in munitions and factories and the armed forces.

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if shipping frozen kosher ducks from space to earth is done faster, not doing the sabbath resting, surely they are still edible non kosher ducks you could sell? The kosher ducks subplot is doing my head in a bit.

This is dire. Look at the chapter headings if you don't agree "A Shocking Confession", "Another Shocking Confession". The characters are very difficult to remember, apart from having odd names, (Nash, Austin, Belty, Oliver, Thirza etc) they are all difficult to tell apart. I feel Sophie Hannah might need a holiday in Greece herself rather than writing about Poirot going on one