![]() ![]() The problem, of course, is that stories about the plague are very, very well-trodden territory, and generally follow a very predictable pattern: rumours about a dangerous disease fly, some people flee to the country but most scoff and hope it’s nothing, before long people are getting sick and dying in the streets, and then it’s too late and the plague has overtaken the city. ![]() Oldfield isn’t tempted to make Alice more mature or brave than she needs to be, and it doesn’t come across as false or over-done. ![]() Alice does grow up and mature during the book-kicking and screaming all the way, which is pretty darn realistic. So I don’t start out sounding like I completely hated it, there were some very nice aspects to this book! Alice, our heroine, is a reasonably well-off girl living with her aunt and father in London, along with her little dog and their maidservant. ![]() The Great Plague: A London Girl’s Diary, 1665-1666, Pamela Oldfield, 2012. Which is too bad, considering that “novels about the Plague” is usually a genre I really like! Is that a weird thing to say? I don’t know, I enjoyed Year of Wonders and The Doomsday Book so very much that they’ve ruined me for anything else. I was somewhat disappointed in this one-I’ve so enjoyed most of the My Story books I’ve read so far, but this one left me cold. ![]()
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