The Square of Sevens
22 June 2023Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
The Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller
A BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club Pick
'A wonderfully inventive novel' — The Times and Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction of 2023
Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens is an epic and sweeping novel set in Georgian high society, a dazzling story offering up mystery, intrigue, heartbreak, and audacious twists.
This is your story, Red. You...
Details
22 June 2023560 pages
9781529053678Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
[A] wonderfully inventive novel set in 18th-century England. As the heroine and narrator Red seeks the truth about her origins and possible connection to the wealthy De Lacy family, the reader’s expectations are constantly confounded with one twist in her tale after anotherThe Times and Sunday Times, Best Historical Fiction of 2023
This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre . . . a masterpieceJanice Hallett, betselling author of The Appeal
A sweeping Dickensian tour de force of a novel . . . cementing the author’s place as the queen of modern Georgian literatureSusan Stokes-Chapman, bestselling author of Pandora
A sprawling, exquisite, outright triumph . . . I doubt I’ll read a better book this yearChris Whitaker, author of We Begin At the End
