Hilary Mantel, twice winner of the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell, Wolfhall and Bring Up the Bodies, and received an OBE in 2013 for her literary services. A sleepy, strange, almost surreal town in the 1950s , lost somewhere among the swamps and heather moors of the legendary north of England. Here begins an amazing story of two people - and one... an alien from other, unknown worlds. But who is he - the one who calls himself Fludd? An angel sent from heaven so that save a priest who has lost his faith and a young nun suffering from loneliness and misunderstanding among the petty intrigues of a provincial monastery? A demon of hell who has come to subtly tempt and destroy souls? Or a mysterious player enjoying a game in which the stakes are high and the rules are clear only to him alone?