Sister Perpetue keeps guard of the patient's room. She has heard the stories: that he's eaten all manner of creatures and object. He is the one they called The Great Tarare. When an act of violence saw Tarare left for dead, his ferocious appetite was ignited. A heart-stopping story following Tarare on his travels through France and the Revolution.
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.
Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves. "This is an intimate portrait of a clever if unworldly heroine who slides from amused observation of the 'moribund carnival atmosphere' in the household of a 'possessed' child to nervous uncertainty a...
