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…
Specifikacia 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. 1798, France. 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. 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. 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