The Journal of the Plague

The incidents in the book are all based on true stories. A lot of them i've taken from the case notes of a midwife who worked in somerset in the early eighteenth century, called sarah stone. She published forty odd case notes of cases wor had gone wrong, but she'd gone in and er saved the day. So for example, in one incident, m sarah stone was called to bloomfield's farm. In my novel there, i take the name of the farmers their family name, so it becomes jenny bloomfield, who's got the problems. M adana can expand the 200 word bald casenot into a whole three thousand word chapter about the