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A Parcel of Patterns

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
  • Genre / subject: True stories
  • Author: Jill Paton Walsh
  • Audience: Children

About the book

A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh is a children’s novel.

The gripping story of a historical lockdown, through the eyes of a brave 16-year-old girl. A PLAGUE - A VILLAGE - A LOCKDOWN 1665, Eyam, Derbyshire. 'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague' It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village.

She tends her flock, spends time with her best friend and teaches her young suitor to read. But one day a parcel of patterns, meant for a new dress for the pastor's wife, wings its way from London. The parcel carries an infection that spreads with horrifying speed. Herbal teas and open windows are the only defence against the sickness.

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