Fierce Appetites

A book of blazing honesty that allows all the gorgeous complexity of the past into our messy present to remind us we’ve always been like this – Max Porter
Really REALLY good – Siobhán McSweeney
Boyle has the skill to move us between the raw and the refined, the mind and the body, the past and the present, the mundane and the marvellous without ever losing control of her dark materials – Fintan O’Toole
An astounding piece of writing – David Perry
Just 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
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 – Hilary Mantel
Pure nectar for the imagination, and it’s my book of 2022 – Clodagh Finn * Irish Examiner *
Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book – Hilary Fannin
I just love it – John Connolly
Unusual, arresting and genuinely enriching – Sharon Arbuthnot * Irish Times *

Elizabeth Boyle was born in Dublin, grew up in Suffolk and returned to live in Dublin in 2013. She is a medieval historian specialising in the intellectual, literary and religious culture of Ireland and Britain. A former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, she now works in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University, where she was Head of Department for five years until 2020. Fierce Appetites is her debut book.

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