Overview
When the local tailor receives a packet full of patterns from London, he becomes the first victim of a terrible illness that will spread like wildfire. This poignant story of love and loss, told by local girl Mall Percival, recounts how the brave people of the Derbyshire village of Eyam come to make the ultimate sacrifice in an effort to keep the dreadful disease from spreading throughout England.
A Parcel of Patterns, based on the true story of how the Plague devastated Eyam in 1665, won the ALA Award for Best Book for Young Adults and the Universe Literary Prize.
Brigit Forsyth is one of television's best-known faces, having appeared in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Doctors and Waterloo Road. Her theatre work includes Hamlet and Arsenic and Old Lace. Among her films are Fanny and Elvis.