I have to admit that I did not immediately warm to Karen Ullo’s novel. This was due to my own prejudice against both historical fiction and women’s romance. I was mistaken. Ullo won me over, and I came to admire and root for her protagonist, a tough but tender Frenchwoman. In my continued trawl through [...]
What important works of fiction worked a healthy reaction against the French Revolution in Britain and America, a reaction little diminished today? The bicentenary of the French Revolution occurs in this year of 1989*; and still the world is tormented by ghastly political upheavals and acts of terror that are inspired by what was said [...]