Book description
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Hannah returns to her beloved London to re-open the sweetmeats shop
with younger sister Anne. Londoners are reeling from the plague
epidemic of the previous year, but Hannah and Anne are keen to start
enjoying everything the bustling city has to offer. But this is 1666,
and it has been prophesised that terrible things will happen, and on
Pudding Lane, flames are raging through the bakery...
Mary Hooper evokes with complete mastery the sights, sounds and
terror of a London gripped by the ferocious and terrible Fire of
London, engulfing everything in its path.
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I could barely explain how much I wanted to go back to London, for
I hardly understood myself. I'd hated the stinking city when we'd
left, could hardly bear to think on its name, but now the plague had
disappeared from the streets the people would be back, the theatres
and shops would be open and we would find everything as cheery as it
had been before.<
'At the Sign of the Sugared Plum' was one of the
surprises of 2003. Mary Hooper tried her hand at something
completely new and thrilled everyone with her vivid and utterly
convincing picture of London in the grip of the plague. What made
this book so good was how she wrapped a piece of history in a sugary
sweet parcel... In 'Petals in the Ashes' Hannah returns to London.'
The Bookseller, Jan 2004
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Hannah returns to her beloved London to re-open the sweetmeats shop
with younger sister Anne. Londoners are reeling from the plague
epidemic of the previous year, but Hannah and Anne are keen to start
enjoying everything the bustling city has to offer. But this is 1666,
and it has been prophesised that terrible things will happen, and on
Pudding Lane, flames are raging through the bakery...
Mary Hooper evokes with complete mastery the sights, sounds and
terror of a London gripped by the ferocious and terrible Fire of
London, engulfing everything in its path.
I><
I could barely explain how much I wanted to go back to London, for
I hardly understood myself. I'd hated the stinking city when we'd
left, could hardly bear to think on its name, but now the plague had
disappeared from the streets the people would be back, the theatres
and shops would be open and we would find everything as cheery as it
had been before.<
