![]() ![]() Anna is absorbed by her ‘reawakened feelings’ for George, but before any romance can develop between them, he falls into a ‘weakened state’ and eventually dies. He is ‘clean and neat’ and a ‘modest man’ and Anna ‘ his kindness’. George Viccars, a tailor from London, has come to Eyam and is boarding at Anna’s house. The narrative shifts back in time to the season of spring, 1665. Anna also reflects on the death of her husband, Sam (two years ago), and of Elinor Mompellion, who died very recently. Anna Frith (servant to the town’s rector, Michael Mompellion), laments that the apples have all begun to rot, and that ‘there are so few people to do the picking’. The story begins in Eyam, 1666, a year after the Plague has ravaged the town. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. ![]() Her 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize Australian-American novelist, born September 1955 ![]()
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