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. 'Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible.an ambitious, gripping epic. 'It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. '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.' - The New Yorker She does it admirably.a tour de force.' - The 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. Capturing the violence, tragedy, history, and drama of the French Revolution, this novel focuses on the families and loves of three men who led the. '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
Hilary Mantel captures it all.' - Time Out '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.' - The Daily Telegraph 'One of the best English novels of the 20th century.' - Diana Athill, The Oldie 'Superbly readable.an assured and strange masterpiece.' - The Sunday Telegraph
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