A Short History of Disease verve adolescent anxiety and the realities

adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp

two people and two futures

Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea

inevitably

Fiona McLean blows into Tommy's life and the hotel

A Short History of Disease verve adolescent anxiety and the realitiesDisease has plagued human civilisations throughout history, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. The Black Death took the lives of one third of Europe's population in the fourteenth century. The conquest of the New World was accompanied by devastating waves of smallpox. The Industrial Revolution happened in a world blighted by the diseases of urbanisation and overcrowding, typhoid and cholera, typhus and TB. New diseases