The Plague - what a dreary subject. Perhaps that's why I'd been avoiding this one even though many of my friends were raving about it. Now I get it. Yes, the plague is a sad topic (here we're talking about the Restoration era outbreak), but it's made somehow less so by our plucky little narrator ...
Book for younger readers places one in the heart of London's Bubonic Plague. Really well researched 17th century fashions.