Bog Queen is an iridescent contemporary folktale, steeped with peat, memory and myth. Its writing shimmers with strange beauty, perfect for those who crave the haunting stories the earth remembers for us -- Lucy Rose, bestselling author of THE LAMB A page-turning mystery and a graceful, sincere evocation of internal and external power struggles in changing worlds, from Roman Britain to a climate-broken UK. Bog Queen sparkles like unearthed treasure -- Kaliane Bradley, bestselling author of THE MINISTRY OF TIME Bog Queen is a story I won't soon forget: exquisitely observed and filled with details about moss, druids, and dead bodies I wasn't aware I needed to know (but am now pleased to). Daring, delightful, and moving, this novel should be required reading for all of us facing a changing climate and uncertain future. I loved being inside Anna North's curious, compassionate perspective; I'll follow her anywhere, and to any time -- Rachel Khong, bestselling author of REAL AMERICANS I can't remember the last time a novel so moved and transfixed me. Bog Queen is infused with a profound wisdom about human ambition across the millennia - how enormous it has been, and also how insignificant - that seems to transcend human understanding, as if delivered by the old gods themselves. An absolute astonishment -- Vauhini Vara, author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE IMMORTAL KING RAO A lightning strike of a novel by a visionary storyteller. Bog Queen is an earthly meditation; a page-turning mystery; and a tale of power, profit, and dominion as old as time. Anna North is simply brilliant -- Jung Yun, author of SHELTER and O BEAUTIFUL With rich, elegiac prose, Anna North's Bog Queen travels between modern day England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe to ask what we owe the past, the earth and, ultimately, each other. A book of magic and healing -- Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY Wise, beautifully written, and transcendent in feeling, Bog Queen is exactly the kind of novel I love. North deftly weaves between the past and present to show us the complicated and far-reaching web that connects us all through time and space -- Rita Chang-Eppig, author of DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA A memorable tale of the unexpected linkages of history, land and female power. North widens her range with this layered mystery-meets-ancient-history mashup * Kirkus *
