It’s all quite convincing, because had Halifax put up a fight, there’s little doubt that he would indeed have become prime minister and I suspect sued for peace with Germany within a very short time. It’s long at 592 pages, which include a long explanatory note at the end justifying the approach he took to the book. This is his first counterfactual novel, but I suspect it won’t be his last. He literally hates the SNP, which is evident at various points in the plot of DOMINION. DOMINION and hit the headlines recently when he donated £160,000 to the BETTER TOGETHER campaign. He then wrote a spy novel, WINTER IN MADRID. he rose to prominence with a highly successful series of novels set in the reign of Henry VIII, all about the life of a lawyer, Matthew Shardlake.
The author, C J Sansom, is a strange cove. If you are a fan of counterfactual history, and you wonder what might have happened in May 1940 had Lord Halifax become prime minister rather than Winston Churchill, then you will love this book.
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