Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
Buy on AmazonThis is the story of a young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the year of 1666, when plague suddenly visits her small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elect to quarantine themselves.
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"Although this is not a crime novel as crime novels go, it is a remarkable story about the Great Plague of London and holds the reader’s attention as if a terrible crime has been committed and wondering what the outcome can be."
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