Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger by Barry UnsworthWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for 'denying Holy Writ' . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's

A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century

” Initially

it’s a masterpiece

this is a fantastic first look at nature for curious children everywhere

contorted beyond recognition – or what they remembered about her astonishing life

bestselling author of The Square of Sevens'Gloriously bonkers ' – Andrew Taylor

concealed identity

one that she herself relished

traditional meatballs

he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel

but unknown to him

and her son