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Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by Geraldine Brooks (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (2 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184115458X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841154589
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,350 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback  |  Library Binding (Reprint) |  Hardcover (Large Print) |  Audio CD (Audiobook) |  Turtleback (Import) |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice. Do they flee their village in the hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighbouring towns and villages and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, a young widow called Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. Together with Mompellion and his wife Elinor, she tends the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, unacknowledgeable feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonderssometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction. Anna and Mompellion can occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances.--Nick Rennison

The Guardian, 14th July 2001
'A staggering fictional debut that matches journalistic accumulation of detail to natural narrative flair.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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