'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel Top 25 History
Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers
this Christmas! Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover
departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening
together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth
Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by
immersing herself in the literature that has been her first love
and life's work for over two decades. Fierce Appetites is the
exhilarating and deeply humane result. Not only does Elizabeth
Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and
obscure, from Ireland and further afield, but she uses her
historical learning to grapple with the raw and urgent questions
she faces, questions that have bedevilled people in every age. She
writes on grief, addiction, family breakdown, the complexities of
motherhood, love and sex, memory, class, education, travel (and
staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and
occasional dark humour. Fierce Appetites is captivating and
original - as an insight into the mind and heart of a
groundbreaking scholar, and as a wise and reassuring account of
what it is to be human. _____________________ 'Wonderful . . . I
laughed. I cried. I was blown away' The Times 'Pure nectar for the
imagination' Irish Examiner 'Unusual, arresting and genuinely
enriching' Irish Times 'I loved this luminous, radical book about
bodies in time. It is a deeply personal history, that
simultaneously brings medieval myth and poetry to breathing,
bleeding life. An education for the mind and the heart' Clare
Pollard 'Highly original . . . engagingly candid [and]
thought-proviking' Irish Independent 'An eloquent plea for the
value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the
robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the
resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an
agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like
nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel 'Bracingly honest, fiery,
funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book'
Hilary Fannin 'Extremely intriguing . . . I found myself completely
absorbed' Ryan Tubridy 'I absolutely loved this utterly original
book. Immersing myself in Elizabeth Boyle's considerable brain was
a true privilege, and the way she uses medieval narratives to
unpick her own present was endlessly surprising and beautiful. I
read it in two sittings, devouring her perspective on life, love,
loss' Clover Stroud 'Fiercely smart, strange, surprising,
unsettling, unflinching' Jennifer O'Connell, Irish Times 'An
outstanding achievement. Fierce Appetites defies easy
categorization, is brilliantly written and simply deserves to be
read' Darach O Seaghdha 'Everything is illuminated, magnified,
revisioned: sexual desire, motherhood, family. Her writing is
unorthodox, unnerving, and very exciting' Tanya Shadrick
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