WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] exceptional winner. . . . It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring." --Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The Women's Prize for Fiction judges Two extraordinary people. A love that draws them together. A plague that threatens to tear them apart.England, 1580. A youn