The Great Trouble : A Mystery of London, the Blue Death and a Boy Called Eel 🖋 Deborah Hopkinson

 

"'I ain't let on I knows anything about you. But Fisheye Bill Tyler is onto you - and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. He might've been an honest fish monger once. Those days are gone. He's turned bad. Very bad indeed.'"

📖This book was the first historical fiction I had read and I found it to be truly sublime! It was interesting to me because it taught me how people first learnt about cholera and while telling a gripping tale about a young boy all alone in London trying to keep himself alive.

🔵Eel a mudlark from the mid 19th century London, had enough adversaries of his own, having to make a living out of selling debris found in the filthy Thames river,  keep a lookout for Fisheye Bill Tyler who was one of the vilest men in London, and keep a secret that costs him four shillings a week. But on one thick, foul-smelling morning in August, his whole life takes a big turn as a cholera outbreak comes to his street. Though everyone believes that the outbreak spread through air Dr John Snow thinks otherwise. It’s s up to Eel and his friend Florrie to help the doctor prove his theory before it’s s too late.