Winner of the 2011 Costa Book Award.
He meets many strange characters. He is billeted with the Monnards and their mad daughter. Armand is the organist in the derelict graveyard church; he has revolutionary friends. Jeanne is the virginal granddaughter of the sexton. The priest in the church is a recluse, blinded by the Chinese whilst doing missionary work. Heloise is the local whore; she loves reading.
J-B recruits his best friend and a troop of miners, one of whom is a mystery man, and they begin to excavate the bones.
A very strange book, a comedy of manners set amidst corpses.
November 2012; 342 pages
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