Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle

Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past

Elizabeth Boyle

352 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
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Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by imme...

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informative: 84%

reflective: 84%

emotional: 42%

hopeful: 36%

funny: 31%

challenging: 26%

inspiring: 15%

dark: 10%

sad: 10%

adventurous: 5%

mysterious: 5%


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