Novel set in rural Lincolnshire
Sacred Hunger
Location(s): England, West Africa
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 1752-1765
Sacred Hunger races between gaudy mansions of the nouveau riche in the English countryside and the slave dealers abode in humid, hot West Africa. It concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for “denying Holy Writ
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