Mosse wields admirable control over the vast body of her material and manoeuvres through it with subtlety and grace. Mosse infuses each scene with such depth of atmospheric detail that full immersion is inevitable. and a very interesting adventure' BBC RADIO 4's FRONT ROW 'Magnificent. Enjoyable.' - Michele Roberts THE TIMES, 16 July ''A good book. she puts in lots of colourful, sensual detail. a Grail gripper elegantly written timeslip novel set in France.' THE INDEPENDENT, 15 July 'An old-fashioned romance cum spiffing adventure story. Labyrinth is very much a Girl's Own story: a grail quest in which women aren't helpless creatures to be rescued, or decorative bystanders, but central to the action, with the capacity to change history.' - Geraldine Bedell THE OBSERVER, 31 July 'A spellbinding adventure story' REAL, 5-19 August 'An action packed adventure of modern conspiracy and medieval passion. intriguing.passionate book.' - Lucy Atkins THE SUNDAY TIMES, 31 July 'Kate Mosse's Labyrinth provides this year's gripping romp.

there are also some powerful dramatic scenes: the climatic moments where the good and evil women meet and battle it out are particularly compelling. reminiscent of Jean Plaidy and Mary Renault the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity.' - Kathryn Hughes THE GUARDIAN, 13 August 'This is a novel clearly fuelled by an authorial obsession with a history, region and concept. 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. saturated with a passionate understanding of the region's past in a way that puts more conventional historical accounts to shame. 'The thinking woman's summer reading, chick lit with A levels.

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