At the Sign of the Sugared Plum Paperback / softback
by Mary Hooper
Paperback / softback
Description
'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn' t think you'd want to go there Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.' Hannah is oblivious to Farmer Price's dark words, excited as she is about her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop 'The Sugared Plum', making sweetmeats for the gentry.
Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah.
Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome, Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away - the Plague is taking hold of London.
Based on much research, Mary Hooper tellingly conveys how the atmosphere in London changes from a disbelief that the plague is anything serious, to the full-blown horror of the death carts and being locked up - in effect to die - if your house is suspected of infection.
A brilliant new departure from this best-selling author. "Mary Hooper is another writer to watch" The Independent
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:04/08/2003
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- ISBN:9780747561248
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:04/08/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780747561248