Privilege av Guinevere Glasfurd

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<p><b>''I thought of the books we carried and the hands that would one day hold them. The pages read, turned and discussed. And how the book would become thought and the thought then become the person gone out into the world. Let Gilbert try and put a stop to that.''</b><br><br>After her father is disgraced, Delphine Vimond is cast out of her home in Rouen and flees to Paris. Into her life tumbles Chancery Smith, apprentice printer sent from London to discover the mysterious author of potentially incendiary papers marked only <i>D</i>. In a battle of wits with the French censor, Henri Gilbert, Delphine and Chancery set off in a frantic search for <i>D</i>''s author. But who is D and does D even exist?<br><br><i>Privilege</i> is a story of adventure and mishap set against the turmoil of mid-18th century France at odds with the absolute power of the King who is determined to suppress opposition on pain of death. At a time when books required royal privilege before they could be published