Plague Child
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780007312368
Subjects: Great britain, fiction; Fiction, historical, general
Description: On a cloudy September evening in 1625, plague cart driver, Matthew Neave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. As he journeys to the plague pit, he hears a cry and realizes that the baby is still alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise the child as his own.