Lead Review

  • Book: The Quality of Mercy
  • Location: Durham
  • Author: Barry Unsworth

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`He is a historical novelist of a reliably old-fashioned sort: the writer who offers a plausible recreation of a bygone age and animates it with people whose motivations are consistent with the tenor of their time… the fact that his characters never turn into moral ciphers is one of his greatest strengths. [THE QUALITY OF MERCY] has all these qualities in spades’ –DJ Taylor, The Independent

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