Sacred Hunger

WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE

‘Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins- Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for \”denying Holy Writ\” . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man’s iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT’ – Anthony Quinn in the Independent

Format: Paperback
Pages: 640
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 04/02/1993