The
story begins in the year 1990 and covers a period of around
30 years. It is therefore a little futuristic. It explores
the meaning of the word "different" as it applies
to human beings. Rose Anderson is a very rare individual,
with an unusual genetic condition. She is born in Shetland
and is frequently ill as a child and is diagnosed as infertile.
Always different from her peer group, Rose relates easily
to the rest of the animal kingdom...an otter...sheep...cats...even
microbes have a different effect on her. She develops a determination
to succeed and becomes an expert Virologist. Driven by a need
to find other rare individuals like herself, she embarks on
a mission to find a biologically compatible mate that takes
her far a field - to Australia & America.
In the first decade of the new Millennium, her expertise in
Virology is in demand during escalating Bio-warfare. A deadly
virus wipes out a large proportion of the human race, leaving
only pockets of individuals who have natural immunity. Most
of these are minority groups e.g. those like Rose with certain
types of Chromosome Rearrangement, Black minorities and Gay
people.
