- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409040644
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
Jem (and Sam)
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409040644
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
This is a novel that wears its learning lightly. The extensive research is woven seamlessly into the plot and illuminates the setting
Philippa Gregory, Independent
This is a marvellously vivid and enterataining evocation of Cromwellian and Restoration England. Mount paints from a rich palette, but the brushwork is stylishly economical... When is a historical novel not a historical novel? When it is written by Ferdinand Mount. He is in danger of giving the genre a good name'
Ian McIntyre, The Times
The story smoothly takes in the Dutch wars, the Plague and Fire... It includes hellish episodes in a groaning Bedlam, as well as sylvan scenes of sport and the superior delights of the metropolis... Mount gives JEM a fluent, allusive prose with a period flavour that avoids pastiche...vivid...powerful
Sunday Times