Lockdown Tales The: Disobedience Love Patience and Other Stories

Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid a pandemic. They isolate together in a local farm where they pass the time working flirting eating drinking making music and above all telling stories. It happened in Florence in 1351 during the Plague and gave us Boccaccios Decameron.Seven hundred years later in Australia it happens again. The stories are very different but theyre still bawdy satirical funny and sometimes sad and they celebrate human cleverness love courage and imagination.Alan Whelan brings us a clever sensual and sometimes poignant collection of stories that would make Boccaccio proudTangea Tansley author of A Question of BelongingAn old frame for a sharp new snapshot of contemporary AustraliaLeigh Swinbourne author of Shadow in the Forest