Diana is an ambitious young appraiser at Sotheby's in New York. She's about to go on holiday, where she knows Finn, her surgeon boyfriend, will propose. But it is Friday the 13th of March 2020. The new virus hits. Finn can't leave the city, and suggests she goes without him. In the Galapagos, unable to get back to her real life, Diana learns about the devastation hitting the world as she hears intermittently from her boyfriend.
A deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.