What can I say I absolutely loved this book, my children got it me for Christmas as I has seen It in a book shop in the summer and said how good it looked. I read it in 3 days over the Christmas holidays and want to read it again. Its a bit like a history book looking back when the world stopped!

I loved this book as it was a written as a balance between Sarah and Catherine’s personal and professional lives. Their honesty throughout the book was very humbling and the book really got me thinking about what took place in the world of science when the pandemic was announced.

Although written by two amazing women this is not my usual type of book to read but I loved everything about it. The science, the politics, the ethics around vaccinations, the way teams worked behind the scenes to make the vaccination roll out a success.

This book made me realise that we knew very little about what was really going on in the world during the first 12 months of covid. Why so many people were at home complaining that their life was being impacted even though all they were being asked was to stay at home. There was a team of people working so bloody hard, without a day of for weeks to get the country back in back to some kind of order. These people didn’t seek reward they just did what they knew they needed to do and personally I will be so grateful.

What I also loved about this book and everything that surrounds Covid was how it made Science exciting and how Science can literally change lives.

And of course I loved this book because it was written by two amazing female scientists that didn’t make a big issue about being females throughout the book they just explained life during the first 12 months of covid from their perspective.

This is a short book review as all would say is everyone should read it, there really is something for everyone in the book. Its a piece of history and book I am sure I will go back to time and time again.