
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The finest novel Dunmore has written' Observer' Superb & poignant' Guardian Quietly brilliant among the best fiction of our time' Daily Telegraph It is 1792 & Europe is seized by political turmoil & violence Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom & he has everything to lose from social upheaval & the prospect of war Diner believes that Lizzie's independent questioning spirit must be coerced & subdued She belongs to him law & custom confirm it & she must live as he wants But as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens she soon finds herself dangerously alone