as much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies." - New York Times Book Review
This may be an unconventional thriller, but it's still a page turner for that. "Dunmore has always been fantastic on the complexity of people's motivations and the secret reasons they act as they do. a novel you won't be able to shake."- Entertainment Weekly "Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook, Exposure is many things at once-an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant's tale-and it assumes these varied identities with confidence.
Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants-his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Tormented and striving Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.
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