Fludd - Hilary Mantel

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• A mysterious curate is sent to an English village in 1956 to assist a fallen priest.
• Fludd turns out to be a reincarnated alchemist who helps the priest with his drinking problem and sets off a series of miracles in the superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality.
• One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton.
• He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he?
• In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom.
• No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop.
• Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears.
• Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action.
• Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.