Book guide
Year of Wonders
When plague seals off a village, one housemaid becomes its unlikely hope.
GenresLiteraryHistorical
Genre and trope pairingsLiterarySmall townLiterarySelf-discoveryLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiteraryGrief journeyHistoricalForbidden romance
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About Year of Wonders
In seventeenth-century England, plague enters an isolated village through infected cloth, and Anna Frith witnesses fear, grief and superstition overtake her community. As death spreads, Anna finds unexpected courage as a healer while confronting moral collapse and forbidden desire.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Medium
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- death
- child death
- pandemic/epidemic
- grief
- medical content
- murder
- violence
- terminal illness
- traumatic childbirth
- self-harm
- violence against women
- child abuse
- domestic abuse
- abortion
- rape
- sexual content
- misogyny
- religious bigotry
- classism
- alcoholism
