Hurdy Gurdy

Hurdy Gurdy
Christopher Wilson
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Hardback
h216 x 135mm - 256pg
21 Jan 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780571361946
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I pledge on the jeopardy of my immortal soul. I saw it all, with my young eyes. From start to end. And may Lucifer, and his infernal demons, fry my liver for break-fast if a word of this sorry history turns out to be a lie. It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Novice friar Brother Diggory, now sixteen, has lived in the Monastery of the Order of St Odo at Whye since his eighth birthday. But his life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the monks must attend to the victims. When Brother Diggory is nominated to tend to those afflicted, he realises he is about to meet the Plague, and that it is more powerful than him. What he doesn' t realise is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite different things. An uproarious and uplifting novel about sickness and health, the fashions of 14th Century medicine, and how perhaps we' re never quite as cutting-edge as we might like to believe.
Christopher Wilson is the author of novels including Gallimauf' s Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton and Nookie. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize. Wilson completed a published PhD on the psychology of humour at LSE, worked as a research psychologist at UCL, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at Goldsmiths' College, London University. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780571361946
Published: 21 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 256

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