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'The Turn Of Midnight' Looks Towards Dawn

Minette Walters' sequel to The Last Hours finds her medieval villagers beginning to deal with the fact that they've survive the Black Death — and what that means for what's left of society.
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Minette Walters continues the medieval saga she began in 2017's The Last Hours with The Turn of, which finds the population of Develish in Dorseteshire (; medieval spellings and dialects pop up regularly in both books) dealing with the aftermath of the Black Death. How have they survived the plague when so many perished? The ministrations of their benevolent Lady Anne, a combination of Glinda the Good Witch and Jonas Salk.

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