{"product_id":"fierce-appetites-9780241992432","title":"Fierce Appetites","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Like nothing else you will read'' Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop 25 History Books of the Year, \u003ci\u003eThe Times - t\u003c\/i\u003ehe perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll three happening together brings a moment of reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedieval 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e 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, memor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book of \u003cb\u003eblazing honesty\u003c\/b\u003e that allows all the gorgeous complexity of the past into our messy present to remind us \u003cb\u003ewe've always been like this\u003c\/b\u003e -- Max Porter\u003cbr\u003eReally REALLY good -- Siobhán McSweeney\u003cbr\u003eBoyle has the skill to move us between the \u003cb\u003eraw and the refined\u003c\/b\u003e, the mind and the body, the past and the present, the \u003cb\u003emundane and the marvellous\u003c\/b\u003e without ever losing control of her dark materials -- Fintan O'Toole\u003cbr\u003eAn astounding piece of writing -- David Perry\u003cbr\u003eJust as brilliant and hard to define as everyone says it is. You should read it. You will both learn things and be entertained -- Jan Carson\u003cbr\u003eAn 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 \u003cb\u003eresilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations\u003c\/b\u003e. It's an agile story,\u003cb\u003e irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read\u003c\/b\u003e -- Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003ePure \u003cb\u003enectar for the imagination\u003c\/b\u003e, and it's my book of 2022 -- Clodagh Finn * Irish Examiner *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e really is a wildly good book -- Hilary Fannin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI just love it \u003c\/b\u003e -- John Connolly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnusual, arresting and genuinely enriching \u003c\/b\u003e -- Sharon Arbuthnot * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHighly original\u003c\/b\u003e . . . engagingly candid [and] thought-provoking -- Martina Devlin * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eI loved this \u003cb\u003eluminous, radical book\u003c\/b\u003e about bodies in time. It is a deeply personal history, that simultaneously brings medieval myth and poetry to breathing, bleeding life. \u003cb\u003eAn education for the mind and the heart\u003c\/b\u003e -- Clare Pollard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiercely smart, strange, surprising\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jennifer O'Connell * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtremely intriguing\u003c\/b\u003e . . . I found myself completely absorbed. Fascinating -- Ryan Tubridy\u003cbr\u003eEverything is illuminated, magnified, revisioned: sexual desire, motherhood, family. \u003cb\u003eHer writing is unorthodox, unnerving, and very exciting\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eoutstanding\u003c\/b\u003e achievement. \u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e defies easy categorization, is \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly written \u003c\/b\u003eand simply \u003cb\u003edeserves to be read\u003c\/b\u003e -- Darach Ó Séaghdha\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cb\u003e absolutely loved\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eendlessly surprising and beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e. I read it in two sittings, devouring her perspective on life, love, loss -- Clover Stroud\u003cbr\u003e[A] \u003cb\u003emarvellous, astonishing, funny, moving, wise, reflective, deeply scholarly, fascinating \u003c\/b\u003ebook -- Aidan O'Sullivan\u003cbr\u003eAll twelve essays are \u003cb\u003efreighted with that fierceness\u003c\/b\u003e the title trumpets * RTÉ Guide *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is\u003cb\u003e extraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a \u003cb\u003ewonderful work of women's memoir\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sinéad Crowley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733436379479,"sku":"9780241992432","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241992432.jpg?v=1720000069","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fierce-appetites-9780241992432","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}