This is a clever and beautiful book which, I think transcends genre. It is set in a world similar but not the same as our world around the time of the second world war. The main character is a historian who seems to have an affinity for an ancient language he never learned and a sort of Deja vu feeling about certain historic events.
His area of expertise is a woman from history who was a brave bold knight and is now worshiped by some as a symbol of revolution (I think, I could be remembering that wrong…).
A female politician gives him a mysterious book and he is sent back in time to meet his heroine and become instrumental in shaping her story.
The plot was quite confusing for a while, and although I was enjoying the ride, I wasn’t absolutely sure what was going on, but all became clear eventually, and I found myself gripped and totally invested in the fate of the scholar and the knight and feeling all the feels about the things that were happening to them, so it’s definitely worth sticking with.
Sarah Wray Writer 