A Parcel of Patterns

'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague'It's 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village.

About the author

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book, A Parcel of Patterns, the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels, and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet. She completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations, and continued Sayers's series with A Presumption of Death, The Attenbury Emeralds, and The Late Scholar.

She held numerous posts connected to literature, including an Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship, acting as a Whitbread Prize judge, and serving on the committee of the Society of Authors. She contributed articles and reviews to many journals. In 1996 Walsh was awarded a CBE for services to literature and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Summary

'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague'It's 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Paton Walsh
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2022
• EAN: 9781784877385
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-738-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; England, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Europe, Derbyshire, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Medieval, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Interest age: from c 9 years, History: plagues, diseases etc, C 1600 To C 1700, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period)