Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce Jung’s life has been intimately

Jung’s life has been intimately entwined with her native land

'A great shout of life and individuality

With three quarters of the Mediterranean’s coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies

Following the year from spring to winter

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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth #joyce Jung’s life has been intimatelyWINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . 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" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's