Fiction by Ken Follett
This is book five in the Kingsbridge series; the last one of those I read was The Evening and the Morning, which was technically book four but chronologically book one. (Yeah. Confusing.) The other books are: The Pillars of the Earth , World Without End , and A Column of Fire. However, as I mentioned, each book is connected by location only and can stand alone.
The whole series is about the history of England as lived in the village of Kingsbridge (hence the name), and this installment takes place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution.
As always, the author takes the big sweeping historical events and brings them down to the level of characters that the reader can care about, making things interesting and personal. All of these books are fabulous.
I also read recently by this author: The Modigliani Scandal
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