Book: Years of Wonder
Author: Geraldine Brooks
PLOT: This book takes place in a small village near England in 1666. In the book, the main character, Anna, tells the story of how her village was destroyed by a plague that was brought to town by a man from London.
The book starts out from Anna telling the reader what the town is like in the present times (destroyed), then she goes back to describe how it got to be that way. Anna starts out by telling how she let a man, Mr. Viccars, come board in her house. Mr. Viccars, however unfortunately gets sick (with the plague) and dies very quickly. In his last moments of life, he asks Anna to please burn all the clothes he had made because he was afraid he might have infected them. Anna wants to take his advice and burn the clothes, but they are so beautifully made that his customers refuse to let them burn and naively decide to keep them.
Within a day her neighbors infant dies of the plague, then people all over town start to feel sick as well. The only two town "herbalists" are accused of being witches and causing the plague, and they are both killed. Leaving the town with no skilled doctor or herbalist to help save the sick.
The book goes on to tell about losing many people in the town, Anna becoming lovers with the Rector, Anna saving and adopting a little girl, Anna fleeing the town with the little girl, and Anna being pregnant once she is gone and having the Rectors baby. The book ends with Anna walking away in a new town with her two daughters (adopted, and birthed) in a new town because they escaped the sickness of the plague.
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