Birdcage Walk Av Helen Dunmore

<p><b>THE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>''Quietly brilliant ... among the best fiction of our time.'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b>''The finest novel Dunmore has written.'' <i>Observer</i><br>''Superb and poignant.'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.<br><br>Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. 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. <br><br>Diner believes that Lizzie''s independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants. <br><br>But as Diner''s passion for Lizzie darkens, she soon finds herself dangerously alone.<br><b>______________</b><br><b>Nominated for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week Award</b><br><b>Longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</b></p>