Saturated with a passionate understanding of the region's past in a way that puts more conventional historical accounts to shame. the result is entirely compelling and full of incidental pleasures.
The author has combined an ingenious adventure story with a wonderfully detailed account of the historical background of the Languedoc. Skilfully blending the lives of two women divided by centuries but united by a common destiny, LABYRINTH is a powerful story steeped in the atmosphere and history of southern France.
Although she cannot understand the symbols and diagrams the book contains, Alais knows her destiny lies in protecting their secret, at all costs. Puzzled by the words carved inside the chamber, Alice has an uneasy feeling that she has disturbed something which was meant to remain hidden.Eight hundred years ago, on the night before a brutal civil war ripped apart Languedoc, a book was entrusted to Alais, a young herbalist and healer. But it's not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy there's an overwhelming sense of evil in the tomb that Alice finds hard to shake off, even in the bright French sunshine. When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past.
intriguing.passionate book.TV tie-in edition of the SUNDAY TIMES No. there are also some powerful dramatic scenes: the climactic moments where the good and evil women meet and battle it out are particularly compelling. SUNDAY TIMES - Anthony Sattin This is a novel clearly fuelled by an authorial obsession with a history, region and concept. the story line runs on knowledge and fun - Carcassonne never looked so good. the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity. 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. THE TIMES - Kate Saunders Saturated with a passionate understanding of the region's past in a way that puts more conventional historical accounts to shame. THE TIMES - Christina Koning Pacey and addictive.
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