Book guide
A Place of Greater Safety
Three brilliant young men enter revolutionary Paris—and help unleash a force none can control.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalBetrayalHistoricalPolitical intrigueHistoricalResistanceHistoricalClass divideLiteraryBetrayalLiterarySocial commentary
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About A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel’s epic follows Georges-Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins, and Maximilien Robespierre through the French Revolution. Their ideals, ambitions, friendships, and rivalries drive them toward power, terror, and tragic consequence.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- anti-gay bias
- sexual violence
- rape
- ableism
- child death
- suicide
- suicidal ideation
- graphic violence
- domestic violence
- substance use
- sexual content
- illness
- death
