YEAR OF WONDERS - Collins Modern Classics

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. In the spring of 1666 | a bolt of infected cloth carries the plague from London to the quiet village of Eyam. The villagers elect to isolate themselves in a fateful quarantine | seen through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith. As death and superstition creep from household to household | she must confront loss and the lure of illicit love in an extraordinary Year of Wonders. This timeless and powerful novel | based on a true story | was the astonishing debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.