- English literature, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, fiction
England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Maggie O'Farrell
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Tinder Presss, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, L'Altra Editorial
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Italian, srp, Korean, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781432892494
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