It is the fourteenth century. Europe and China are suffering an outbreak of an unpredictable disease.
For seven hundred years it sweeps through the population like wildfire.
The symptoms are horrific. It kills weak and strong, young and old.
It is known by many names. The Plague. The Black Death. The Pestilence.
Why did it happen? Could it happen again? Who would be left to tell the tale?
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The author adopts quite a chatty tone as she very successfully 'makes history come alive' and takes readers through the eight centuries of social, political, and cultural world history haunted by the terrors of The Plague, The Death, The Pestilence. Comprehensively researched historical information is interspersed with some gripping 'Imagine you are there' segments: diary entries and letters written by fictional characters who are about fourteen.
— Elspeth Cameron, Reading Time
This text offers excellent insights into medieval society as well as human nature in general and would be certain to spark lively classroom discussions about medieval European life for high school students learning about this period of history.
— Susan Whelan, Suite101
