hilary mantel a place of greater safety amazon

The author is a novelist who obviously is excited about historical research and detail, especially the blend of violence and power that accompany every revolution. The swirl of events that created and accompanied the French Revolution, struck even its real life protagonists often as unbelievable: the execution of Louis XVI, who was very popular right into the summer of 1790, seemed to many, even after his beheading more like fiction. However, Mantel frequently has the characters state real quotations from their works, on the theory that what goes onto the record has often been checked and accepted as truth. Like her Booker-Prize awarded books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, this is a historical novel and Mantel is interested in the relationship between history and fiction. If you like politics and a long read, this book is for you.

Neither does she hold back on the horror of the Paris mob and the Guillotine.

She cleverly deals with conversations and brings wit and ridicule into events, especially when dealing with the brilliant and eccentric Camille. I love the way she also incorporates the lives of their families and how they are affected by events.

In over 800 pages Mantel brilliantly describes the lives, from childhood, of three main characters of the French Revolution : Danton, Camille and Robespierre - how they meet in adulthood, become acquainted and how their politics bring them together in the turmoil of events of1789 and beyond. I read this book several years ago and struggled with Mantel's style of prose but having read and loved her Cromwell trilogy, I gave it another go.

Hilary mantel a place of greater safety amazon