
WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE' Gripping SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 & 1765 it concerns the entangled & conflicted fortunes of two cousins Erasmus Kemp the son of a Lancashire merchant & Matthew Paris a scholar & surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges & it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH & ENERGY NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT'
- Anthony Quinn in the Independent