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I am sure there will be some book by Hilary Mantel I don't enjoy, but I have not found it yet. I got the audiobook of this little gem from librofm and I highly recommend it. The ending is not fully resolved with a bow but still satisfying whichis hard to accomplish.
The picture shows why I have not been reading for the last couple of weeks while back home with beautiful weather.

Thanks Kate 😘 you say this is a ‘ mischief-maker ‘ of a book ... I‘m really looking forward to it ! Thankyou! And for the lovely daffodil card & delicious choc XXx Cathy.

This was a strange, immensely original and surprisingly sweet book about faith and transfiguration. I loved the setting, all the characters, and obviously Fludd himself. Very gently magical, very English, Hilary Mantel is really incredible.

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Nuns and priests in a village Up North in the 50s. "His Corpulence" the bishop informs Father Angwin that he must modernise. Enter the curate, Fludd. But what manner of man of the cloth is as well-versed in alchemy as scripture? The ensuing transformations might be welcome (not least Fr Angwin's inexhaustible whisky bottle) but are they holy?

I enjoyed this very much: the mundane and marvellous are the width of bible paper apart. And it's funny!

From Fludd. What a writer Hilary Mantel is!

Book 4 of my #12booksofsummer challenge was a strange story of faith and transformation. Wonderfully atmospheric and darkly funny, as you‘d expect from Hilary Mantel. Quite unlike anything else I‘ll read during this challenge.

A brilliant start to Hilary Mantel's Fludd. She is now one of my go to authors and I am working my way through all her novels. 💗

Throwback pic to when I finished this book in Malibu by the pool. I wish I was there now! So hot in NYC.

This book was a little weird and hard to get into at the beginning, but overall I enjoyed it.

It's amazing how much thought and feeling is packed into this short novel. Fludd tells of a small Northern Catholic village, it's congregation more than half profane, its priest fending off an officious bishop, a cruel Mother Superior and his own lapsed faith. Enter Fludd, the mysterious new curate, and his curious ability to draw the truth out of people. Very funny and very sad Mantel deftly mixes the earthy and the ethereal 👇

I wish I could sum up these 181 pages as well as the reviewers on the back cover but I cannot. I was smiling all the way through- it is delightful and moving and hopeful and ambiguous and just a perfect little gem. 👍👍👍👍👍#TbrList #HilaryMantelStarterBook

Heard about this on a books podcast (cannot place which one) and had a horrible time finding it- why don't they spell out ambiguous words on podcasts???? #HilaryMantelStarterBook!!!

What a funny, strange, unsettling book.

Have you ever read something that made you feel discontented and unsettled at the end?

This book is scathing about a form of Catholicism in 1950s England. I am a person of faith and this doesn't bother me, as the things it ridicules are ridiculous.

But something about the story, though mostly beautifully written, left a bad aftertaste.

Have you experienced such a feeling about a book before?

@Libby1 , your post reminded me of the Round Church I visited in Vermont several weeks ago. This was built in the 1800's. I wish I had a shot of the inside. Families purchased their pew which was inside a wooden box. They brought tiny heaters filled with coal to stay warm inside their compartment. It was still quite cold, as you can imagine. #Vermont

"There were draughts, it was true,which followed each worshipper like a bad reputation, which dabbed at their ankles and climbed into their clothes, as cats do with people who do not like them."