She attended Sydney University and worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald. A former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Brooks lives in rural Virginia with her husband, author Tony Horwitz, and their son.īrooks was born in 1955 and grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Geraldine Brooks is also the author of March (2005) and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Kibble Award, 1997 Pulitizer Prize, 2006 (for March).
Like Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha and A. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village's desperate fight to save itself.Įxploring love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of science and religion to interpret the world at the cusp of the modern era, Year of Wonders is at once a story of unconventional love and a richly detailed evocation of a riveting moment in history.
The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England.
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