The Glutton - A.K. Blakemore
Category: Horror
Tags: Horror, Historical Fiction, Adults
A New York Times EDITORS CHOICE | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian Paste Magazine LitHub The Millions Library Journal, From 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., Obscenely beautifulEvery sentence is gorgeousPowerful and provocative. The New York Times Book Review, 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 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 its killing him from the inside. But thats not allhe is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appet
