A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel [Paperback]

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and the price that must be paid for it.

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels includingWolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author ofA Change of Climate,A Place of Greater Safety,Eight Months on Ghazzah Street,An Experiment in Love,The Giant, O'Brien,Fludd,Beyond Black,Every Day Is Mother's Day, andVacant Possession. She has also written a memoir,Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared inThe New York Times,The New York Review of Books, and theLondon Review of Books. She lives in England with her husband.

Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption. Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

More people really need to get with the concept that Mantel is one of the best writers in England. 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. The Seattle Times

An epic of extraordinary l³*