'Tightly plotted and hugely readable' Jane Rogers, author of
PROMISED LANDS 'Marvellous . . . fans of immersive historical
fiction, the 18th century, all things French and a dash of peril,
this one's for you' Emily Brand, author of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF
BYRON 'Glasfurd deftly, elegantly captures this volatile world of
impoverished attic rooms and gilded literary salons' DAILY MAIL 'I
thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day
hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the book
would become thought and the thought then become the person gone
out into the world. Let Gilbert try and put a stop to that.' After
her father is disgraced, Delphine Vimond is cast out of her home in
Rouen and flees to Paris. Into her life tumbles Chancery Smith,
apprentice printer sent from London to discover the mysterious
author of potentially incendiary papers marked only D. In a battle
of wits with the French censor, Henri Gilbert, Delphine and
Chancery set off in a frantic search for D's author. But who is D
and does D even exist? Privilege is a story of adventure and mishap
set against the turmoil of mid-18th century France at odds with the
absolute power of the King who is determined to suppress opposition
on pain of death. At a time when books required royal privilege
before they could be published - a system enforced by the Chief
Censor and a network of spies - many were censored or banned, and
their authors harshly punished. Books that fell foul of the system
were published outside France and smuggled back in at great risk.
Costa-shortlisted author Guinevere Glasfurd has conjured a vibrant
world of entitlement and danger, where the right to live and think
freely could come at the highest cost.
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