The last hours

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Label

The last hours

Statement of responsibility

Minette Walters

Creator

• trueWalters, Minette
• Walters, Minette

Author

• Walters, Minette

Subject

• trueBlack death
• trueChurch and state
• trueCivilization, Medieval
• trueEngland -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485
• Families -- Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueIndependence in women
• trueIntrigue
• trueMedieval period (476-1492) -- 476 -- 1492
• Plague -- Fiction
• Quarantine -- Fiction
• Upper class
• Upper class -- Fiction
• trueWomen rulers
• truePlague
• trueAristocracy
• trueAustralian fiction
• Black Death -- Fiction

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction
• trueAustralian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable. With her brutal husband absent from Develish when news of this pestilence reaches her, she takes the decision to look for more sensible ways to protect her people than daily confessions of sin. Well-versed in the importance of isolating the sick from the well, she withdraws her people inside the moat that surrounds her manor house and refuses entry even to her husband. She makes an enemy of her daughter and her husband's steward by doing so, but her resolve is strengthened by the support of her leading serfs ... until food stocks run low and the nerves of all are tested by continued confinement and ignorance of what is happening in the world outside. The people of Develish are alive. But for how long? And what will they discover when the time comes for them to cross the moat?

Member of

• Black Death, 01
• Last hours, 01

Writing style

• trueDescriptive

Cataloging source

QX9

Dewey number

823.92

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6073.A444

LC item number

L37 2018

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

• Last hours
• Black Death

Series volume

• [book 1]
• [book 1]

Target audience

adult