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Brian Kennedy: ‘I’ve had three Cs – cancer, cardiac arrest and now Covid. What else can I bloody get?’

Brian Kennedy is pondering the imponderable, a ridiculous – and unfounded – rumour that goes as follows: in 1999 he and fellow popstar Ronan Keating were in bed together when the Boyzone singer’s then wife Yvonne came home and caught them, and smashed up Ronan’s new Peugeot with a baseball bat.

Tale of resilience: Author Sarah Hall. Photo by Richard Thwaites

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Burntcoat: Sarah Hall conjures pandemic novel bursting with passion

At the start of Sarah Hall’s sixth novel, Burntcoat, the celebrated British sculptor Edith Harkness is struggling. First, with the staggering burden of her latest — and last ever — commission, a national memorial to honour the million people who were lost to the Nova or AG3 Virus; second, from the relapse of viral symptoms she is experiencing — symptoms from which, it seems, she will probably die.

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Brian Kennedy: ‘I’ve had three Cs – cancer, cardiac arrest and now Covid. What else can I bloody get?’

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