YEAR OF WONDERS (PB)

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. This novel explores love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of 17th century science and religion to deal with a seemingly diabolical pestilence and it is also an eloquent memorial to the real-life Derbyshire villagers who chose to suffer alone during England's last great plague.