Sunday Times Children's Book Of The Week
Rees's novels have a Keira Knightley approach to history: glamorous, courageous, post-feminist young heroines in fancy dress engage in derring-do and challenge men's preconceptions, while simultaneously breaking hearts. That's the quibble about Sovay. Authentic it ain't, but it is a compulsive, rollicking read full of colour and facts (some racy) about a feisty highwaywoman in 18th-century England, and about France in the worst days of the Terror. NICOLETTE JONES
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