From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination
- this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution Georges-Jacques Danton zealous energetic & debt-ridden Maximilien Robespierre small diligent & terrified of violence & Camille Desmoulins a genius of rhetoric charming & handsome yet also erratic & untrustworthy As these young men key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power the darker side of the period's political ideals is unleashed
- & all must face the horror that follows