A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh ’All should studiously avoid dancing

’All should studiously avoid dancing

Based on the true events of the village of Eyam

it features a 17th century plague doctor - a ‘key worker’ from the past - wearing a beak-shaped mask and carries the quirky quote:

Size: H 42 cm x W 38 cm x D 10 cm

Herbal teas and open windows are the only defence against the sickness

A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh ’All should studiously avoid dancingA PLAGUE A VILLAGE A LOCKDOWN It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village. She tends her flock, spends time with her best friend and teaches her young suitor to read. But one day a parcel of patterns, meant for a new dress for the pastors wife, wings its way from London. The parcel carries an infection that spreads with horrifying speed. Herbal teas and open windows are the only defence against the sickness. Yet the