A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel

A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY. Copyright © 1992 by Hilary Mantel. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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First published in the United States by Atheneum

eISBN 9781429922807

First eBook Edition : August 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mantel, Hilary.

A place of greater safety / Hilary Mantel.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42639-2

ISBN-10: 0-312-42639-9

1. France—History—Revolution, 1789-1799—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063.A438P5 1998

98-26688

823’.914—dc21

CIP

First Picador Edition: December 2006