Rating: 5 out of 5

I enjoyed this a lot. I read it at a time when I needed something light-weight and engaging. It delivered this. The three stories from the three time periods are a well used but still effective method and build up the story nicely. A great book to switch off to.

Highlighted passages:

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

He brushed his bushy moustache, which sat like the tails of two small squirrels above his lips.

‘As old as me little finger and a bit older than me teeth.’

‘Stop wriggling. You’re worse than Lady Asquith’s corgi.’

‘You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.’

to think was to dip the paint-loaded brush of doubt into the clear water of certainty.

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account