A Place of Greater Safety

A Place of Greater Safety
1st edition
Author(s)	Hilary Mantel
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Historical novel
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	December 2006
ISBN	0312426399

A Place of Greater Safety is a 1992 novel by Hilary Mantel. It concerns the events of the French Revolution, focusing on the lives of Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre from their childhood through the execution of the Dantonists, and also featuring hundreds of other historical figures.

Background

Mantel explains that, where possible, she used the historical figures' own words, from their speeches or writings.^[1]

Reception

A Place of Greater Safety won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award.

The New York Times praised Mantel, but not the book, wondering if "more novel and less history might not better suit this author's unmistakable talent."^[2] Another reviewer praises the book saying "the dialogue is unfailingly witty, increasingly desperate, and never predictable."^[3]

References

^ Mantel, Hilary (2006). A Place of Greater Safety. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=srII8V8_UTcC.
^ Olivier Bernier (9 May 1993). "Guillotine Dreams". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/mantel-place.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
^ Micael Snedeker (October 2009). "Mantel's French Revolution". http://www.counterpunch.org/snedeker10162009.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.

Works by Hilary Mantel

Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) Vacant Possession (1986) Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988) Fludd (1989) A Place of Greater Safety (1992) A Change of Climate (1994) An Experiment in Love (1995) The Giant, O'Brien (1998) Giving Up the Ghost (A Memoir) (2003) Learning to Talk (2003) Beyond Black (2005) Wolf Hall (2009)