London Bridge in Plague and Fire: A Novel

“Like Dr. Frankenstein’s invented creature, the larger—than—life, flesh—and—blood characters of London Bridge in Plague and Fireare made from pieces of the dead past that are forged in the consciousness of an historian—himself a creation of history and of David Madden’s literary magic. Struck by the lightning bolt of the co—joined imaginations of Madden and his reader, the fabricated beings rise up and walk on London Bridge, and they have the audacity to speak for themselves in completely c...