Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

from mrstreme

Geraldine Brooks explored the the small village of Eyam, England in her historical novel, Year of Wonders. In 1666, residents in Eyam became inflicted with The Plague and volunteered to quarantine themselves to help stop the spread of the disease. Brooks used this fact to explain the hardships of...

from pokarekareana

Growing up in Derbyshire doesn't do much for your sea legs (being seventy miles from the coast) but it does guarantee numerous school trips and family outings to the village of Eyam; the 'plague village' on whose story this novel is based. Part of me feels sad that it took an Australian-American ...

from rosalita

I'm majoring in history and geography, so this book by Geraldine Brooks appealed to me when my friend Janet pulled it off the shelf. A Year of Wonders is a fictionalized account of a 17th century English village that reacts to the arrival of the Plague by quarantining itself from the rest of the ...

from Jemima79

Year of Wonders (2001) traces a young woman who looses all her loved ones to the plague in a 17th century small English village. As the protagonist struggles to find the will to keep living, she learns that the survival of her own soul is linked to that of the others in the village. It is a story...

from Pat_F.

Like other reviewers, I have 2 rankings for this one: 5 stars for the bulk of the book, and 1 star for the ending. *SPOILERS*First, the pluses: I loved the writing, the sense of place and community, the look at their day-to-day lives, and the dread that emerges and increases as the disease spread...