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A year of wonders
A year of wonders




a year of wonders

Among the dead are the children of the Hadfields (Anna’s neighbours), and Anna’s children, Jamie and Tom, soon die, too.įear spreads throughout the town, culminating in an incident where the town’s healers - Mem Gowdie and Anys Gowdie - are killed. The plague quickly spreads throughout the village as a result, and many people soon fall gravely ill. Prior to his death, George instructed Anna to ‘burn ’ he made, but she ultimately concludes that she ‘had no right to withhold it from ’. Anna is absorbed by her ‘reawakened feelings’ for George, but before any romance can develop between them, he falls into a ‘weakened state’ and eventually dies. He is ‘clean and neat’ and a ‘modest man’ and Anna ‘ his kindness’. George Viccars, a tailor from London, has come to Eyam and is boarding at Anna’s house. The narrative shifts back in time to the season of spring, 1665. Anna also reflects on the death of her husband, Sam (two years ago), and of Elinor Mompellion, who died very recently. Anna Frith (servant to the town’s rector, Michael Mompellion), laments that the apples have all begun to rot, and that ‘there are so few people to do the picking’.

a year of wonders

The story begins in Eyam, 1666, a year after the Plague has ravaged the town. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Her 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize Byatt's Posession, Year of Wonders blends learning and romance into an unforgettable read.Australian-American novelist, born September 1955 Like Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha and A. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village's desperate fight to save itself.Įxploring love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of science and religion to interpret the world at the cusp of the modern era, Year of Wonders is at once a story of unconventional love and a richly detailed evocation of a riveting moment in history. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease.

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In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England.






A year of wonders