Originally published in 1954, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead is a twisted pandemic parable and a tragicomic gem. But as the virus spreads and hysteria grips everyone around them, they realise their lives are about to change forever. The wild and mysterious countryside is the only world they have ever known. They have grown up in the village, cared for by their meek father and bullied by their grandmother with her enormous ear trumpet. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one.įrom the Willoweed cottage, sisters Emma and Hattie watch the tragedy unfold. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live.
But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles.Īll of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself.
Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. 3.89 avg rating 2,727 ratings published 1950 25 editions. 'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.' – Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet Average rating 3.91 9,218 ratings 1,528 reviews shelved 31,599 times.
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