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The Last Hours

By Minette Walters
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As a plague descends on Medieval England, a courageous Lady must protect her land and people at all costs in this historical novel: "Enthralling" (Julian Fellowes, creator of The Gilded Age).England, 1348. When the Black Death arrives in Dorset, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church proclaims it a punishment from God, insisting that daily confession is their only hope for survival. But Lady Anne of Devilish has different ideas. With her trusted steward Thaddeus at her side—and her brutal husband absent—she gathers her serfs within the moated walls of Devilish and refuse entry to outsiders, including her husband.Bu in such a confined space, conflicts soon arise. Ignorant of the world outside, Lady Anne's people wrestle with the terrible uncertainty of their futures. And as food stocks run low, they begin to wonder how long they can survive within. The moment will come when they must cross the moat . . . and encounter a world transformed in ways they can't imagine.

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.“

Jennifer Donnelly
A Northern Light