At the Sign of the Sugared Plum - Softcover

Hooper, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747561249 ISBN 13: 9780747561248

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Synopsis

'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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Review:

"This story still manages to be thoroughly romantic whatever the growing corpse count." -- Independent, Monday 28th November 2003

'Mary hooper is a writer to watch' -- The Independent

From the Publisher:

Through Hannah’s eyes, Mary Hooper brilliantly recreates the smells, sounds and sights of seventeenth century London life. Hannah’s excitement at coming to the big city is vividly evoked as is the growing terror of a seemingly unstoppable plague that takes hold of the city, street by street, house by house.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747561249
• ISBN 13: 9780747561248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176