This is the novel we've been waiting for from Linden Salter: a historical novel that's also a gripping page-turner that addresses the timeless themes of love and sex, death and birth, truth and kindness, freedom and responsibility.
'Set during the Terrors of the French Revolution, it will tell you more about those darkening days than Les Miserables, it’s far more accurate than The Scarlet Pimpernel, and it's a hell of a lot easier to read than Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety.' (Publication summary)