The Giant O'Brien Author:Hilary Mantel London, 1782: Charles O"Brien, bard and giant, arrives from Ireland to seek his fortune. A freak of nature, he has a poet's soul. — His opposite is a a man of science, John Hunter. Celebrated surgeon and famed anatomist, he buys dead men from the gallows and babies' corpses by the inch - and he wants Giant's bones. — Brilliant, lyrical, shocking a... more »nd spliced with black comedy, THE GIANT O'BRIEN is an unforgettable novel, in which belief wrestles knowledge and science wrestles song.« less