A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Place of Greater Safety? If you could sum up A Place of Greater Safety in three words, what would they be? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

I look forward to further offerings from this author and this narrator. Jonathon Keeble's brilliant performance, complete with consistent and identifiable voices for the characters, enhanced it further, making it an experience I won't readily forget. This is an immensely powerful book, a tour de force, which drew me so into the times that I found it difficult sometimes to relate to my day-to-day 21st century life after a session of listening. Although the details have to be surmised, they are based on careful analysis of the writings of the real people involved, drawing out their motivations and beliefs. You see their relationships, their trials and their temptations. You feel embedded in it, experiencing what drove them from crisis to crisis and directed their actions. In this well-researched book, she draws flesh and blood portraits of the leaders of the revolution and what led them to the events of that stormy time. Hilary Mantel dives beneath that to breathe life into the characters who populated the events.

If you've learned about the French Revolution at school, you've probably assembled a jumble of facts about the dramatic actions of the revolutionaries and the mob and the outcome of it all. OL464517W Page_number_confidence 95.28 Pages 918 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200804152751 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1294 Scandate 20200715102137 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007250554 Tts_version 4.Living breathing flesh on history's bare bones Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:30:00 Boxid IA1887924 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel