A Place of Greater Safety (Paperback)

'Superbly readable...an assured and strange masterpiece.' - The Sunday Telegraph

'One of the best English novels of the 20th century.' - Diana Athill, The Oldie

'Hilary Mantel has soaked herself in the history of the period...and a striking picture emerges of the exhilaration, dynamic energy and stark horror of those fearful days.' - The Daily Telegraph

'I cannot think of a historical novel as good as this until one goes back to Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, published forty years ago.' - Evening Standard

'Marvellous...It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Hilary Mantel captures it all.' - Time Out

'Intriguing...She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries - and with them the French Revolution - tick.' - Independent

'Crafty tensions, twists and high drama...a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style.' - Times Literary Supplement

'An extraordinary and overwhelming novel...immensely detailed and yet fast-moving...she has set herself to capture the excitement and intellectual fervour of the period. She does it admirably...a tour de force.' - The Scotsman

'Riveting...the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy.' - The New Yorker

`Much, much more than a historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it...a triumph.' - Cosmopolitan

'This is a high-class historical blockbuster.' - Red Magazine

'Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible...an ambitious, gripping epic.' - Vogue