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the beasts of paris
Published by Quercus 4 July 2023 Teaser for The Beasts of Paris “War showed you who people really were.” Penney, whose detailed and evocative novels have been set in such inhospitable places as the Arctic Circle, places her current saga in what might, initially, seem to be a more pleasant location: Paris. There, the lives of the working class and the bourgeoisie alike are unsettled by the onset of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The horrors of war continue even after a peace treaty is signed, as former me
‘A supreme story-teller on top form’ The Times Costa Book of the Year 2006 buy ’The Invisible Ones’