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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book.
Jan 1, 2001 · Year Of Wonders is the story of a very young, but determined and brave young widowed housemaid, Anna Frith, who loses her two children to the horrors of the plague, but soldiers on to help the town minister and his wife fight the contagion while quarantined within their village.
Apr 30, 2002 · An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Year of Wonders opens in the autumn of 1666. The protagonist, Anna Frith, watches the half-hearted harvesting process as farmers bring bruised apples to the rectory. Anna is the housekeeper to the vicar Michael Mompellion.
Apr 30, 2002 · Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay?
As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a “year of wonders.” Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.
As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a “year of wonders.” Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.
Apr 30, 2002 · Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.
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Apr 28, 2020 · Historical Fiction. A gripping historical novel that transports readers to a 17th-century English village ravaged by the bubonic plague. Through the eyes of housemaid Anna Frith, Brooks vividly recreates the tumultuous year when the villagers made a fateful decision to quarantine themselves.
