Three: A Tale of Brave Women and the Eyam Plague by Jennifer Jenkins

The year is 1665.  A box arrives in Eyam from plague-ravaged London, containing more than just the cloth ordered by the village tailor.  As the village is reluctantly quarantined to protect the neighbouring villages, three women must find their own way through a year of dangers, discovering their courage as they struggle to keep themselves and their loved ones alive against a silent foe. 

‘Three’ tells the story of Emmott Syddall, engaged to a young man from the next village, Catherine Mompesson, the wife of Eyam’s newly-arrived rector, and Elizabeth Hancock, living up at Riley Farmhouse, seemingly safe from the peril that haunts the village…Will 1666 bring their salvation?

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