![]() ![]() ![]() It is a testimony to Kate Mosse's control over her material that the two narratives never seem to repeat or collide or, indeed, swamp one another. As Alaïs and Alice become increasingly involved in preventing the books falling into the wrong hands, their adventures echo, qualify and extend one another's as if they were playing the same orchestral piece on slightly different instruments. The job of heroine is split between the 13th-century Alaïs, the daughter of one of the leading men in Carcassonne, and Alice, a contemporary British woman who has managed to inveigle her way on to a local archaeological dig as a way of spinning out a lacklustre summer. What really marks Labyrinth out is the fact that all the main roles - goodies as well as baddies, historical and contemporary - go to women. ![]()
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