The book is based on the actual lead-mining village of Eyam, Derbyshire, whose inhabitants 
voluntarily quarantined themselves for a year when stricken with Bubonic Plague in 1665-1666. Anna Frith is widowed at 18 by a mining accident and is the mother of two young boys. Through her recollections, readers live through the year as her endurance and abilities are sorely tested.
Betsy
