Deeply strange, utterly riveting gothic post-apocalyptic sci-fi exploration of identity as a hive mind controlling bodies across a continent, all devoted to medicine, sends a replacement to a remote manor house. Their predecessor was infected with a strange parasitic organism, and as winter closes in and the body is cut off from the rest of their hive mind and the house turns out to be full of secrets and hidden crimes old and new.

Just amazing, going to all sorts of strange and twisted places, physical extremes and psychological disintegration, and the narrator manages, through accents and cadence and volume to switch between multiple identities without ever losing the listener