The Glutton

A.K. Blakemore, Graham Halstead

eAudio - 2023

A New York Times EDITORS' CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The GuardianPaste MagazineLitHub • The MillionsLibrary 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 beautiful...Every sentence is gorgeous...Powerful and provocative." —The New York Times Book Review "This year, I found myself seeking one quality above all others from the books I read: escapism. And no book plunged me into another world quite so bracingly as The Glutton." —Vogue1798, France. Nuns m...ove along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young... more