The Glutton Blakemore A. K.
The Glutton Blakemore A. K. **Named a MOST ANTICIPATED book of 2023 by The Guardian**From the prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French…
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The Glutton Blakemore A. K.
**Named a MOST ANTICIPATED book of 2023 by The Guardian**From the prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-consuming appetite. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetu has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. 1798, France.
But that's not all--he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite...an appetite they say tortures him still.Born in an impoverished village to a widowed The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside.