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Rent Year of Wonders
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Apr 2002
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 336
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. Reprint.
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