Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders is set in a Derbyshire village during the plague year of 1665, when the community chooses isolation after disease arrives in a bolt of cloth. Anna Frith, a young widow and servant to the rector’s household, becomes a witness to fear, grief, superstition, sacrifice and the breakdown of ordinary social order. The novel follows one village through epidemic quarantine, showing how religious conviction and communal survival can turn into courage, suspicion or cruelty.