A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. Hilary Mantel is best known for her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (2009, 2012 and 2020.) But the first novel she wrote was about The French revolution. Mantel began A Place of Greater Safety in the 1970s, …

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