A Place of Greater Safety. Hilary Mantel

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Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental

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      Paperback edition first published by Harper Perennial 2007

      First published in Great Britain by Viking 1992

      Copyright © Hilary Mantel 1992

      Hilary Mantel asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN 9780007250554

      Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2009 ISBN: 9780007354849

      Version: 2017-02-13

Praise

      From the reviews of A Place of Greater Safety:

      ‘Crafty tensions, twists and high drama … a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style’

       Times Literary Supplement

      ‘A formidably talented novelist … She has seen deeply into her characters and their involvements with one another, and makes them live for us, with vivid invented detail, day by day, as they are battered or seduced by public events’

       London Review of Books

      ‘Much, much more than an historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it … a triumph’

       Cosmopolitan

      ‘Intriguing … She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries – and with them the French Revolution – tick … This is the perfect complement to Simon Schama’s history of the French Revolution, Citizens’

       Independent

      ‘Concentrating on the tortuously interwoven relationship between its three most important protagonists, Robespierre, Danton and Desmoulins, Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible … an ambitious, gripping epic … The host of minor characters and the swirling mob who form the necessary background to the story are never lost from sight, but are expertly marshalled on and off the bloodstained stage … a tour de force of the historical imagination’

       Vogue

      ‘Mantel’s grasp both of detail and the complex sweep of events is quite remarkable …“her people” are firmly rooted in physical and historical reality … Little is known of the personal lives of most revolutionary leaders before 1789, and after they became famous, they lived constantly in the public eye. Yet Mantel has managed to get inside them by feeling her way through their writings, families and, quite brilliantly, their women’

       Times Literary Supplement

Dedication

       To Clare Boylan

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Author’s Note

Cast of Characters

Map of Revolutionary Paris

PART ONE

I. Life as a Battlefield (1763–1774)

II. Corpse-Candle (1774–1780)

III. At Maître Vinot’s (1780)

PART TWO

I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787)

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