Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks First published 2001

About this book

This 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.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, historical, general
  • great britain, fiction
  • great britain -- history -- charles ii, 1660-1685 -- fiction.
  • great britain in fiction
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • new york times reviewed
  • plague
  • plague -- fiction.
  • plague in fiction