Geraldine Brooks writes historical fiction that places individual lives inside periods of war, religious conflict and social change. Year of Wonders follows a young woman in an English village that isolates itself during the plague of 1666, while March imagines the absent father from Little Women as an idealistic chaplain experiencing the American Civil War. People of the Book traces the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah through a series of imagined owners and moments of danger across centuries. Caleb's Crossing turns to seventeenth-century New England and the relationship between a minister's daughter and a young Wampanoag man pursuing education at Harvard. Brooks's novels are carefully researched and character-led, fitting historical fiction, literary historical fiction and novels built around documented events or surviving objects. Read more Less
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