Company of Liars - Karen Maitland

The first thing that attracted me to this book was the subtitle - a novel of the plague. As one of those more morbid children the Black Death had always intrigued me with the tales of wracking coughs and blackened pustules on the rotting flesh of walking corpses (I hope nobody is eating dinner at the moment) and I thought, hey now's the time to relive some of those fond childhood memories. This novel is actually set at the time the Black Death was just arriving in England in 1348 so the piles of dead bodies and Monty Python cries of "Bring Out Your Dead" had yet to occur. As a result the general atmosphere of the book begins as a small ripple of fear ...  Read the complete review