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Hilary McElwaine

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Hilary McElwaine was born in Horsham, West Sussex in 1972. She attended St Leonards-Mayfield School in East Sussex and went on to read French and Italian at Oxford. She spent a year living in Siena where she furthered her Italian studies, enjoying the art and architecture on offer throughout Tuscany. A highlight of life in Siena was the build-up to the Palio, a bareback horse race between the town’s seventeen “contrade” around the central Piazza del Campo.

On graduating, she spent ten years working in the City in investment banking until the arrival of her first children, twins who arrived ten weeks early. She wrote a book about her experience with prematurity and the proceeds went to support the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Neonatal Un
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Thieves

These guys are punished in a pit of snakes which wrap and writhe themselves around the sinners’ bodies. Here various extraordinary metamorphoses are witnessed. As the thieves have stolen other people’s possessions, so they have no ownership of their own bodies after death.



One bite and the souls burst into flames and fall in ashes to the ground. The next moment they suddenly regain their bodies. O Read more of this blog post »
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