A review by nichecase
Fludd by Hilary Mantel

4.0

a fantasia on a eucharistic theme: the disjoints between appearance (nature, as some translations would put it) and essence. this simple theme spirals toward a magical realist novel set in the midst of the vatican ii reforms (which attempted to alter the appearance of the church while preserving its essence) into a world where holy men have no faith and rarely wear their true faces. a highly philosophical investigation into the way these two elements can disconnect and interconnect through the lens of catholicism and character study
the only reason this isn't a 5* review is because there was a chunk in the middle which really dragged; the rest of it, however, was an absolute pageturner, as much as it doesn't sound like one.