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by: Geraldine Brooks  Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780007141463 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0007141467 Label: HarperCollins Audio Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: April 02, 2002 Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Studio: HarperCollins Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that is carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they flee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompellion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselves from neighboring towns and villages, and prevent the contagion from spreading. His oratory wins the day and the village turns in on itself. Cocooned from the outside world and ravaged by the disease, its inhabitants struggle to retain their humanity in the face of the disaster. The narrator, the young widow Anna Frith, is one of the few who succeeds. With Mompellion and his wife, Elinor, she tends to the dying and battles to prevent her fellow villagers from descending into drink, violence, and superstition. All is complicated by the intense, inexpressible feelings she develops for both the rector and his wife. Year of Wonders sometimes seems anachronistic as historical fiction; Anna and Mompellion occasionally appear to be modern sensibilities unaccountably transferred to 17th-century Derbyshire. However, there is no mistaking the power of Brooks's imagination or the skill with which she constructs her story of ordinary people struggling to cope with extraordinary circumstances. --Nick Rennison, Amazon.co.uk Product Description: A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One of the best reads evr!!!I just this moment finished reading Year of Wonder. Anytime I find myself talking to the pages as if they would me in reply I know it's a great read. I was elated to get to the end as the ending was not at all what I expected. As a matter of fact I scarcely imagined Anna & Michael's rendezvous, though I hoped for it once Elinor was gone. The story is fluid & engaging & it drew me in like a friend confessing a her truth to me in confidence. I am glad that I generally choose what I read ... Read More Rating: - Unforgettable work -- hard to believe it's really fiction'Year of Wonders' is a fantastically well-written novel based on the real English village of Eyam, where fictional residents chose to seal themselves off from the rest of the country in an effort to quell the spread of the plague in 1665. As conditions in the town worsen and the residents begin to die overnight and in mass numbers, resident and widow Anna Frith must help the Mompellions cope with the disasterous effects of disease, fear, religious zeal and murder. While the book was far more graphic ... Read More Rating:  - DistantI'm writing this as a reader who went out and immediately grabbed "Year of Wonders" after reading and enjoying "March." No doubt a ton of research went into "Year of Wonders" but I would caution potential readers with the fact that Anna Frith, the main narrator, is just too perfect. And this gives the book a strange quality. Anna tends the sick, she manages as a teenage widow and mother, she is dutiful, forthright, and everywhere. At the end, she is tending to the mental (and then physical) ... Read More Rating: - Great read!This is wonderful read, both from the perspective of the insights into the way of life at the time in question, and from the perspective of the development of the personalities and motivations of the charachters. I am a fan of non-fictional histories, so this was a bit off the track for me, but it was a wonderful diversion. Having recently read The Great Mortality by John Kelly, I found the intimate details of life in these times even more fascinating. Rating:  - Book missing pagesEmailed book vendor BUT NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE. Pages 1-34 were missing from Years of Wonder and vendor didn't even offer refund, replacement OR copies of missing pages. I'll order elsewhere in the future. 
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