What factors will encourage the use of such means? The ignorance of ordinary people. What methods will they employ? Slander and hypocrisy. Who are likely to oppose us? The rich and corrupt.
The following quote from Robespierre's private notebooks really resonated with me - sadly! What is our name? The constitution for the benefit of the people. It also shows how ready we are to sacrifice 'others' for the 'good of society' as if we really understand what that is. A great study of human behaviour, illustrates well the tensions between the educated and uneducated, those able to understand widely and those with narrow views. 'Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible.an ambitious, gripping epic.A human study of good intent, power and corruptionĪ gripping tale based on historical events, extremely well read, each character having his own voice. 'This is a high-class historical blockbuster.' - Red Magazine `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 'Riveting.the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy.' - The New Yorker She does it admirably.a tour de force.' - The Scotsman '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.
'Crafty tensions, twists and high drama.a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Intriguing.She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries - and with them the French Revolution - tick.' - Independent Hilary Mantel captures it all.' - Time Out 'Marvellous.It was the best of times it was the worst of times.
'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 '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 'One of the best English novels of the 20th century.' - Diana Athill, The Oldie 'Superbly readable.an assured and strange masterpiece.' - The Sunday Telegraph
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