{"product_id":"9780241992432-fierce-appetites","title":"Fierce Appetites","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLessons from my year of untamed thinking\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, memory, class, education, travel (and staying put) with unflinching honesty, deep compassion and occasional dark humour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e_____________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wonderful . I laughed. I cried. I was blown away'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Pure nectar for the imagination'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unusual, arresting and genuinely enriching' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eClare Pollard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Highly original . engagingly candid [and] thought-proviking' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, \u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e really is a wildly good book' \u003cb\u003eHilary Fannin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Extremely intriguing . I found myself completely absorbed' \u003cb\u003eRyan Tubridy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cb\u003eClover Stroud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fiercely smart, strange, surprising, unsettling, unflinching' \u003cb\u003eJennifer O'Connell, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An outstanding achievement. \u003ci\u003eFierce Appetites\u003c\/i\u003e defies easy categorization, is brilliantly written and simply deserves to be read' \u003cb\u003eDarach Ó Séaghdha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Everything is illuminated, magnified, revisioned: sexual desire, motherhood, family. Her writing is unorthodox, unnerving, and very exciting' \u003cb\u003eTanya Shadrick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40738763898977,"sku":"9780241992432","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32346663.jpg?v=1737186469","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241992432-fierce-appetites","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}