The Plague Charmer

by Karen Maitland

First published 2016

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4.2(720)

Porlock Weir, 1361. Thirteen years after the first Black Death, plague returns to England and begins moving towards the isolated fishing village on the edge of Exmoor. Sara remembers the earlier devastation and watches the community struggle with hunger, illness and the terrifying knowledge that the disease may again take the young and healthy.

Then a stranger arrives from the sea offering protection from the pestilence in exchange for a price no ordinary bargain could justify. As fear divides neighbours and old beliefs acquire new force, the villagers must decide what they are prepared to do to save their families when medicine, prayer and reason offer no certainty.