Along with these three main characters there is a whole host of characters and without the cast list at the beginning of the book I would have struggled to keep track of them. It is a remarkable book about the French Revolution concentrating on three of the revolutionaries – Georges-Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins and Maximilian Robespierre, from their childhoods to their deaths. And this book is certainly a book that takes you to another time and place. It took me over a month to read it and I did pause for a while to read other shorter books in between. So this is the reason that Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety has sat on my bookshelves unread for a few years. Given a choice of reading one long book or several shorter books, in the past I’ve always gone for the long book, as I like to got lost in a book, but more recently I’ve preferred shorter books.
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