First published under the title Back to Nature in 2020, Escape Mutation is an account of the plague years that followed the mutated-virus outbreaks of the early 2020s.
In a desk diary scavenged from a house of the dead, a man records his own experiences of the end times - what he has to do to survive; how he came to be marooned where he is; how he reacts to the discovery that he is not alone. "Utterly convincing, utterly terrifying in a very quiet way, with great shafts of humour." Patricia Finney, author of Lucky Woman and Gloriana's Torch