RaveThe Times (UK)... [a] beguiling new history ... In the slow burn of his early chapters, Guyatt, a historian at the University of Cambridge, traces the origins and draws out the character of these prisoners ... Guyatt recounts [escape plots] in their furtive glory ... no matter the human drama of The Hated Cage, no matter how tense the wait to see which prisoners survive; Guyatt’s real triumph is the reconstruction of Dartmoor Prison itself. In building this claustrophobic world of violence, friendship, hope and horror, he creates a sense of place not far removed from the looming malevolence of Manderley, or the Arctic ice pack that swallowed up the Terror and the Erebus.
