Christopher’s pioneering work of eyewitness history, currently in development as a major TV drama, was a Times, Sunday Times and New Yorker book of the year. It was described as ‘exquisite’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘gripping’ by the New York Times. In the words of Clare Messud, 'the finest historical fiction - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, for example - renders the strange grippingly familiar; so too do those rare historians whose novelistic understanding of their subject brings it to life…De Bellaigue has done this.'
Published by The Bodley Head and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022