Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Paperback Book

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Rent Year of Wonders

Author: Geraldine Brooks

Narrator: Geraldine Brook

Format: Abridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Penguin Highbridge

Published: Jun 2001

Genre: Fiction - Historical - General

Retail Price: $34.95

Discs: 6

Synopsis

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.

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