Fludd - by Hilary Mantel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A mysterious curate is sent to an English village in 1956 to assist a fallen priest. Fludd turns out to be a reincarnated alchemist who helps the priest with his drinking problem and sets off a series of miracles in the superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action. Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Hilary Mantel's wildly inventive novel about a reincarnated alchemist and an imaginary village in England in the fifties is 'in every sense a magical book'." --<i>Listener, England</i> <p/>"Fludd...establishes [Mantel] in the front rank of novelists writing in English today." --<i>The Guardian (London))</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including <i>Wolf Hall</i>, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of <i>A Change of Climate</i>, <i>A Place of Greater Safety</i>, <i>Eight Months on Ghazzah Street</i>, <i>An Experiment in Love</i>, <i>The Giant, O'Brien</i>, <i>Fludd</i>, <i>Beyond Black</i>, <i>Every Day Is Mother's Day</i>, and <i>Vacant Possession</i>. She has also written a memoir, <i>Giving Up the Ghost</i>. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. She lives in England with her husband.</p>
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