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| Author(s) | Hilary Mantel |
| Cover artist | Russell Ayto |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | 1989 |
| Media type | Print & eBook |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 0-670-82118-7 |
Fludd is a 1989 novel written by Hilary Mantel and first published by Viking Press, it won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize that year.
It is set in 1956, in Fetherhoughton, a fictional town somewhere on the moors of northern England, it centres on the convent and Roman Catholic church in the dreary isolated town and concerns the dramatic impact of the mysterious Fludd, who is apparently a curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin, a priest who continues in his role despite privately having lost his faith.
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