GAVIN FRANCIS AUTHOR Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both
urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and
the islands of Orkney. When the pandemic arrived in our society he saw
how it affected every walk of life: the anxious teenager, the isolated
care home resident, the struggling furloughed worker and homeless
ex-prisoner, all united by their vulnerability in the face of a global
disaster. And he saw how the true cost of the virus was measured not
just in infections, or deaths, or ITU beds, but in the consequences of
the measures taken against it. In this deeply personal account of
eighteen months spent caring for a society in crisis, Francis will
take you from rural village streets to local clinics and communal city
stairways. And in telling this story, he reveals others: of loneliness
and hope, illness and recovery, and of what we can achieve when we
care for each other.
