Year of Wonders Themes

Set in 1600s England, Year of Wonders depicts a community as it faces the brutality of the Black Plague. Instead of packing things up and skipping town as soon as the disease appears, the villagers...

How do you stay faithful in a hopeless situation? That's the quandary faced by Anna Frith in Year of Wonders. Her hometown of Eyam has been struck by the plague, but instead of running away like mo...

In Year of Wonders, we visit Eyam, a small English village in the midst of a full-on assault by the Black Plague, and it's some nasty business. The villagers have been convinced by a local pastor t...

If you look at Year of Wonders through the lens of family, then—well, you're going to get bummed out. Real Talk™. Anna Frith, our heroine, loves her family more than anything in the world, whic...

Obvious alert: if a book is about the Black Plague, then you better believe that it's also about mortality. Shocker, we know. As documented in Year of Wonders, the tiny English village of Eyam made...

If you like stories about how zombie pandemics change society, then you're going to love Year of Wonders. Though it features no undead creatures (sorry for getting your hopes up), the novel does fo...

Year of Wonders is the sexiest book about the Black Plague ever written. Not that it has much competition. The novel follows Anna Frith, a widow and mother who's more repressed than Juicy J is trip...

The subtitle for Year of Wonders is Being a Feminist Before Feminism Was Cool. Okay, we made that up. But it might as well be true. The novel follows Anna Frith, a young mother and widow, as she go...