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''Like nothing else you will read'' Hilary Mantel

Top 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!


Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.

All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning.

Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing hersel...