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A review by urbansapphire
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper
4.0
Having read Fallen Grace, I went straight back to Amazon to buy another from this excellent YA fiction author.
The story of a simple country girl, Hannah, who is bursting with excitement at the thought of going to visit her sister Sarah who runs a confectionery shop, spending all hours of the day and night making sugared candies & sweetmeats to sell to well-to-do folk who pass her shop 'The Sugared Plum'.
Events conspire to change Hannah's plans and the fearsome plague comes to town. The story of how Hannah and her sister cope with the daily threat of death, coupled with a little bit of romance from the boy down the road, and this is a great little book, which really captures the heart and evokes a real sense of what it was like for people trying to survive in a cruel world, hundreds of years ago.
The story of a simple country girl, Hannah, who is bursting with excitement at the thought of going to visit her sister Sarah who runs a confectionery shop, spending all hours of the day and night making sugared candies & sweetmeats to sell to well-to-do folk who pass her shop 'The Sugared Plum'.
Events conspire to change Hannah's plans and the fearsome plague comes to town. The story of how Hannah and her sister cope with the daily threat of death, coupled with a little bit of romance from the boy down the road, and this is a great little book, which really captures the heart and evokes a real sense of what it was like for people trying to survive in a cruel world, hundreds of years ago.