Palais-Royal

“Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both requisites quite splendidly.” —D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers—Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest—each of whom is struggling for self-definition and s...