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The host highlighted the book as a massive, 800‑page novel about the French Revolution that precedes Mantel's Thomas Cromwell series. He described it as undisciplined and wildly great to read, urging listeners to pick it up. The recommendation conveyed strong enthusiasm for its ambitious scope and literary quality.
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The host recommended it as a massive, unruly novel about the French Revolution that precedes Mantel's Thomas Cromwell series.
I would like to encourage you and your listeners at some point to go read A Place of Greater Safety, which is the book Hilary Mantel wrote before turning to Thomas Cromwell and his compatriots. It is about the French Revolution, 800 pages long, incredibly undisciplined, and absolutely unruly and wildly great to read.
