Publisher - Scholastic
Author - Pamela Oldfield
Binding - Paperback
Pages - 192
Size - 17cm x 13cm
 
Age - 9+

Product weight 250g



 

July 3rd 1665

Aunt Nell came home from the market looking very pale. She overheard two men discussing the Weekly ills of Mortality. It seems that in the past week 700 people have died from the plague. So the plague is well and truly come to London after all, After much discussion I am to be sent to Woolwich with Aunt Nell. I refused to go without Poppet and Papa has relented. I was sent to enquire of a carrier but was soon stopped in my tracks. One of the houses in the next street had a red cross painted on the door. Above the cross someone had chalked 'Lord Have Mercy Upon Us'

While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Alice Paynton is a fictional character created by the author and her diary is a work of fiction.