In your afterword‚ you describe chancing upon Eyam and its terrible history while living in England in 1990. Can you tell us a bit about your research—for instance‚ what you uncovered about the townspeople and perhaps didn′t include in the novel for whatever reason? What about the difficulties of writing a story that blends fiction with historical fact‚ especially given your journalistic‚ just−the−facts background?
The written record of what happened in Eyam during the plague year...