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Labyrinth kate mosse plot6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘A lovely, intelligent novel of discovery and loss, generous in its historical scope and intimate in its tender details’ ![]() Eat your heart out, Dan Brown, this is the real thing’ ‘ Labyrinth is a reader’s Holy Grail, mixing legend, religion, history, past and present in a heart-wrenching, thrilling tale. ![]() In this she is reminiscent of those twin goddesses of popular historical fiction, Jean Plaidy and Mary Renault’ Guardian Mosse wears her learning so lightly, knitting her historical research so neatly into her narrative, that we never get the slightest sense of being preached or lectured to. It is a testimony to Kate Mosse’s control over her material that the two narratives never seem to repeat or collide or, indeed, swamp one another. ‘ Labyrinth might be described as the thinking woman’s summer reading, chick lit with A levels. ![]()
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