‘It was a call to arms’: Jodi Picoult and Karin Slaughter on writing Covid-19 into novels

The authors reflect on their experiences of including the pandemic in their novels Wish You Were Here and False Witness

• Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them?

I was very conscious of the fact that by the end of 2020, we had already forgotten what happened months earlier, we had forgotten the moments when we’d been told don’t wear a mask, when we washed our broccoli with soap and water. All of the things that that seemed so shocking and scary in March were so far away by November, December. And that was when I started to play around with the story.

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