Bristol’s 18th century building boom when the elegant terraces emerged above Clifton Gorge; revolutionaries in France and radicals in England – Lizzie Fawkes’s life provides an intersection of all three in Helen Dunmore‘s last novel.
Excellent.
Publisher’s page: Birdcage Walk – Helen Dunmore
Finished on the Snow Bombed journey back from Herefordshire, coincidentally on the anniversary of the start of the trial of “Louis Capet“