Spiced with Dickens’s wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiates his origins, marries in England and then naively returns to France for the best of reasons but at the wrong moment. By turns funny, moving, dramatic, deeply sinister.
A Tale Of Two Cities
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£14.00
Edition:Hardback978185715143518/03/1993
Categories: 14. New Year 2024: Some of our Recent Favourites, Fiction, New Year 2024
Tags: Historical Novels, Revolution
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