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Publisher: Canongate
Author: James Meek
ISBN: 9781786896773
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Historical fiction, Medieval
To Calais in Ordinary Time
by
James Meek
To Calais in Ordinary Time by
James Meek
Reviews
"Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled by a story so original and so fully imagined. Meek shows the era as alien, which it is, and doesn’t falsify it by assimilating it to ours. But his characters are recognisably warm and human"
Hilary Mantel
Summary
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe.
To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an exploration of love, death and power, against the backdrop of catastrophe.