Name: A Place of Greater Safety
ISBN: 9780007354849

Hilary Mantel

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.

A Place of Greater Safety

Sarah Christine Gill

Jemima Scott

“We say that everything we do is to preserve the Revolution, but the Revolution is no more than an animated Corpse."

In many ways astonishing - Hilary Mantel simply has the most insane ability to pitch you into the lives and intimacies of her characters. 

Howeverrrr, I found the book pretty hard to get into (maybe I just don’t know enough about the history) and a humongous cast and a blizzard of names meant that some of the story’s most dramatic passages landed flat for me. Still an ARDENT fan though. 

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.