Sovay

Set at the time of the French Revolution, this lively adventure sweeps from rural England to London and thence to Paris itself. It is peopled with a wide array of good and evil characters and manages to embrace political themes and machinations with clarity and a light touch.

At the centre is a young woman, Sovay, who has an independent mind and adventurous spirit, which leads her into all sorts of situations and dangers, which no young girl of her sort should ever know about, let alone endure. Tell her that and you get a pistol in your neck! Unless of course you are the dashing National Guardsman Leon.

It is a long read but quite unputdownable. It should please a wide range of audience with adventure, history, romance, lavish descriptions of costume and interior and a very feisty lead role.