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...Golden Hand is the fifth novel by Edith Simon, the wife of a research chemist at the University of Edinburgh. It tells the story of 53 years (1347-1400) in the life of an imaginary English village called Bedesford-its births, feasts, miracles, wars, witches, lepers, plagues, rapes, murders, floods; and its common talk, small superstitions and deep-breathing faith; the wild downs and dark woods around it; all the kinds of people, from bondman to merchant to lord bishop, who filled out its vivid society; and the great cathedral they all built in the waste. It is, in brief...
About this inward theme of guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...
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