From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Critically acclaimed upon first publication, 'A Place of Greater Safety' is one of Mantel's most celebrated works of fiction. A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists - Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. ‘Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible.an ambitious, gripping epic.’ Vogue Synopsis:īook Description Paperback. 'This is a high-class historical blockbuster.' Red Magazine ‘Much, much more than a historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it.a triumph.’ Cosmopolitan 'Riveting.the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy.' New Yorker She does it admirably.a tour de force.’ Scotsman ‘An extraordinary and overwhelming novel.immensely detailed and yet fast-moving.she has set herself to capture the excitement and intellectual fervour of the period. ‘Crafty tensions, twists and high drama.a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Intriguing.She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries – and with them the French Revolution – tick.’ Independent ‘Marvellous.It was the best of times it was the worst of times. ‘I cannot think of a historical novel as good as this until one goes back to Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian”, published forty years ago.’ Evening Standard ‘Hilary Mantel has soaked herself in the history of the period.and a striking picture emerges of the exhilaration, dynamic energy and stark horror of those fearful days.’ Daily Telegraph 'One of the best English novels of the 20th century.' Diana Athill, The Oldie

‘Superbly readable.an assured and strange masterpiece.’ Sunday Telegraph

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