Heart of the Storm is the first historical novel by the celebrated Hilary Mantel, author of the acclaimed Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolfhall, Enter the Accused, The Mirror and the Light), two of whose books won the Booker Prize. A novel that was significantly ahead of its time and was published only a few decades after it was written. For the first time in the history of English literature, the French Revolution is shown on a large scale not through the eyes of its enemies and victims, but through the eyes of those who created it and were subsequently devoured by their own awakened beast◦ - the fiery tribunes Maximilian Robespierre, Georges-Jacques Danton and Camille Desmoulins... “I became a writer solely because I missed the chance to become a historian... I had to tell myself the story of the French Revolution, but not from the point of view of its enemies, but from the point of view of those who carried it out. I think this book has always been more important to me than anything else... I think that no one but me will write like that. Nobody practices this method, this is my ideal of historical accuracy" (Hilary Mantel). For the first time in Russian!