Wessex Scene Rewrites Novel for the Pandemic
Wessex Scene have been inspired by a brilliant
New Yorker article about how great novels would begin if they were written during the pandemic.
Have a look at what our writers have come up with!
The Hobbit, By J.R.R Tolkein
‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. It wasn’t normally a nasty dirty wet hole filled with an oozy smell but this hobbit hadn’t been allowed out of his hole for a year so what can you expect.’
Catch-22, By Joseph Heller
‘It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. He was rewatching Fleabag for the seventh time and couldn’t take his eyes off Andrew Scott.’