A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is the author of two acclaimed works of non-fiction, Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. She is also a former war correspondent whose writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Guardian. Year of Wonders is her first novel.
Publisher: Fourth Estate A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers