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A young woman's account of the plague in Eyam. The book's style and narrative voice did feel as if it could be authentically from the 17th cent. The author captured the social and religious nuances well as the people were caught by the plague in the midst of a transition from strict Puritanism to the more easy-going ways of the Restoration.

The book is quite short at 135 pages, which is just as well as there are no chapter breaks.

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My 11y/old says I have to recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the history of decease or the history of English villages. He says it's really good. But he gives the content warning of death. So much death. Hundreds. A lot A LOT of death, it's the plague in 1665, Mum!
It made him kind of sad. Especially about the dog.
And that's how I know that this book based on true events must be good: He'll normally bail if there's death.

This was recommended to me after I had read ‘A Year of Wonders‘ (by Geraldine Brooks) a couple of yrs ago. It covers much of the same territory: the story of a young girl in a town that self-quarantines after the Plague breaks out in 1666. Taken from surviving records of the town of Eyam (pronounced \EEM\) it is historical fiction at it finest in making the past live again in a moving way.