The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Booklist About the Author Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. moves beyond the realm of an absorbing yarn into the arena of a literary masterpiece. The Seattle Times An epic of extraordinary detail and depth. Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty Brilliant, edgy historical fiction that captures the whiplash flux of the French Revolution with crisp immediacy on the page. Joan Acocella, The New Yorker More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England. The BBC is adapting A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantels novel about the French Revolution, for the small screen, following the success of its. Review Quotes Mantels writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption.
In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and the price that must be paid for it. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden-and hugely but erotically ugly. Book Synopsis It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. About the Book Set during the French Revolution, this riveting historical novel (The New Yorker) is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.
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