Year Of Wonders

Author: Geraldine Brooks

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9780142001431
  • : Penguin Group USA
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  • : May 2002
  • : 197mm X 127mm X 19mm
  • : Australia
  • : January 2002
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780142001431
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Description

Young Anna Frith, a vicar\'s maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first novel.

Author description

Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning March; the international bestsellers Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders; and, most recently, The Secret Chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised inAustralia, she lives on Martha's Vinyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their two sons.

 

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