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From the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired bya young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-consuming appetite.
"There are few writers who can be truly likened to Hilary Mantel, but Blakemore is one." —The Observer 1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué 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:...
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MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library JournalFrom the prizewinning 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.
"There are few writers who can be truly likened to Hilary Mantel, but Blakemore is one." —The Observer
1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué 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:...