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 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.' --Vogue 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 it's killing him from the inside. But that's
