A Place of Greater Safety

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These chances are few and far between; we have to get on in this world, no good to be done by clinging to women's apron strings.

We take away your childhoods,we force your ideas in this hothouse air; then we winter you in a climate of despotism. When you are thirty, he thinks, you will sit at this desk and, turning from your account books to the piffling local business on which you are employed, you will draft,for perhaps the tenth time in your career, a deed of mortgage on the manor house at Wiège; and that will wipe the look of surprise off your face. It is a brilliantly interwoven tale of the main protagonists of the French Revolution and is told with. Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. If you had told me earlier," her lover said, "we would have only had the row about a brewer's daughter marrying into the de Robespierre family.And then the other character, the French Revolution: unstoppable history, heartbreaking because it had to happen that way. A Place of Greater Safety is a stunning epic novel of the French Revolution, written by the late Hilary Mantel long before her most famous work, Wolf Hall. Camille is a fascinating, weird character, annoying, childlike, selfish but also brilliant with words and charming. For one, it needs a serious edit: it took about 400 pages, almost half the book, before the dramatic tension really started to rise for me.

During the Revolution, Danton, as well as the other two protagonists, Desmoulins and Robespierre, join the radical Jacobin faction.

The New York Times praised Mantel, but not the book, wondering if "more novel and less history might not better suit this author's unmistakable talent. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award.