‘The Glutton is an embarrassment of riches. A sensory assault fit to slap any reader awake with its gorgeous glut of baroque prose and wise, poised lessons on life, pleasure, class, desire, and love’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree

‘The Glutton contains some of the most striking writing I have read in a very long time. An audacious and humane study of desire, pain and tenderness; a remarkable book about a remarkable subject by a remarkable writer’ Keiran Goddard, author of Hourglass

‘Can there be any human frailty beyond this author’s understanding? The Glutton is an extraordinary accomplishment, a truly horrible and truly glorious novel. I devoured it. AK Blakemore’s intelligence is tempered by a profound and merciful human compassion, and the tragic making and breaking of Tarare is going to be with me for quite some time. Heartbreaking’ Annie Garthwaite, author of Cecily

'Relentless and shocking, bursting with life in all its thrilling vulgarity, The Glutton will dog your days. Blakemore’s history is not to be tiptoed around. Her prose is unstoppable, full of bawdy viscera, singing of the cruelty and seduction of the past. Yet here too, are we: our born innocence, our basest desires, our capacity for decay. This book is an ugly beautiful creation, excitingly real; it will have you squirming between sympathy and revulsion, pleasure and pain' Alex Hyde, author of Violets