What Douglas Stuart Says: I’ve read this so many times. For historical fiction fans of Hilary Mantel or Maggie O’Farrell, it’s like a fleshy, brutal epic that reads like a Gericault painting. An immersive, 17th-century love story set at the time of the English civil war; Jacob Cullen is a disgraced soldier, a violent, possessive man who falls in love with a fellow soldier, and when he cannot have him, destroys him instead.
What They Say: “A fat, juicy masterpiece” – Economist
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