![]() Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past. Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children’s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Read more Nominated for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week Award She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants.īut as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens, she soon finds herself dangerously alone. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war.ĭiner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. 'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer among the best fiction of our time.' Daily Telegraph ![]() From the bestselling author of The Lie, and Exposure ![]()
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