Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding.
The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. In 1666, plague scorched London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, to escape contagion.
A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
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