A sensational tale of obsession and murder from the author of The
Wilding. England, 1640s. Jacob Cullen is an educated, vigorous and
dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun
to develop a dangerous interest in god-fearing revolutionary
pamphlets. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal
sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession
of a boiling point he reaches all too often. But Jacob is also
afraid of being discovered as the murderer of a local boy and, as
armed horsemen arrive on the very day of his wedding feast, it
prompts a series of impetuous, temper-fuelled bad decisions: Jacob
flees, dragging his new wife and one of his brothers with him. He
proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of others but mostly on his
own fortunes - as a servant, a husband, a brother, a soldier, and,
critically, as friend, co-conspirator and lover of another man
disaffected by the lurch from freedom to tyranny now apparent in
Cromwell's New Model Army. To step outside the law, outside the
state, outside the established and natural order of things seems to
supply the only prospect of happiness... Gripping, unusual, packed
with heady ingredients, As Meat Loves Salt plunges you into a world
turned upside down by political fervour, inflammatory
pamphleteering, social flux, grisly combat, apocalyptically
evangelical Christianity, sexual confusion, and murder most foul.
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