A friend lent me this older book from her shelf. Published in 2001 and sub titled “A Year of the Plague” - I wasn‘t feeling much excitement to read this so it sat by the bed for 6 months. I finally picked it up over Xmas & then completely devoured it. It‘s a beautifully written & researched historical fiction, told in 1st person from a young woman living within a small English village in 1665 & her town has been closed off due to plague outbreak.














