LockdownLovers

A tale of
surviving the pandemic and even finding love from across two continents

Lockdown
Lovers is a five-part love story set in lockdown conditions in two regions,
Asia and Europe.

In Part I, set in Hong Kong and China, forty-something academic John Ryan
goes to the local 24/7 McDonalds every day to record events around him. We
also get regular updates and reflections on the time of lockdown from Phoebe
Ho, Kwok-ying and a pangolin. Phoebe is a twenty-something Hong Kong activist
and recently elected local councilor, Kwok-ying is a government health
official, and the pangolin is one of the mammals reported as being at the
root of the virus. In Part II, John, Phoebe and Kwok-ying have all had to go
into quarantine as they have picked up the virus. John and Phoebe grow closer
in unique lockdown conditions.

Part II ends on the night before their
passionate encounter in Phoebe’s quarantine quarters. Part III is set in
lockdown conditions in Ireland, Europe. John’s parents are in the vulnerable
category and have been ordered to stay in their homes. John tells no one but
his parents that he has returned. He delivers groceries and medicine to his
parents’ porch but the pain is too much when he sees them staring at him from
twenty feet away behind the porch door. In Part IV, John has come back to
Hong Kong from Ireland and is living on his own. Phoebe is caught up in
events taking place in Hong Kong. Kwok-ying still sends in his witty comments
about the Government.

Part V takes place in Hong Kong and China two years
after the first outbreak. Each character has moved on, and the pangolin is
flourishing. In this pandemic-ridden world, this novel reminds us how human
contact will never cease to be mankind’s saving grace through the darkest
times.