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.
‘Terrifyingly BRILLIANT’MARIAN KEYES, AUTHOR OF GROWN UPS
‘A book that needed to exist in the world. It is the book that was missing’LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN AND ANIMAL
‘Magnificent: I read it one sitting’KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE CITY OF TEARS
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
