Stef Penney has enjoyed considerable success with her Costa Book of the Year, The Tenderness of Wolves, and Costa shortlisted Under a Pole Star.
Her latest, The Beasts of Paris, is a dazzling historical epic of love and survival in war-torn Paris. Anne is a former patient from a women’s asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn’t understand her. Newcomer Lawrence is desperate to develop his talent as a photographer and escape the restrictions of his puritanical upbringing. Ellis, an army surgeon, has lived through the trauma of one civil war and will do anything to avoid another bloodbath.
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