Obviously the author’s last book, as she died not long after completing it.
She says, in an afterword, that she likes writing about the small people who are the backdrop to big events in history – here the French Revolution, although the book is set in Clifton where, I suspect, she lived.
Strange characters - a speculative builder who may or may not have murdered his first wife, married to the daughter of an english feminist radical and friend of Tom Paine.
Different from the usual thriller.
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