Bog Queen

<p><b>''AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE'' LUCY ROSE</b><br><b>''AN ABSOLUTE ASTONISHMENT'' VAUHINI VARA</b><br><b>''A LIGHTNING STRIKE OF A NOVEL'' JUNG YUN</b><br><b><h3>Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, <i>Bog Queen</i> is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese''s Book Club Pick <i>Outlawed</i> </h3></b><br>In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner''s office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved.<br><br>The body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: archaeologists desperate to study the bog, those who want to profit from the land''s resources, a group of neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place. And underfoot, all along, there''s the land itself: a teeming colony of moss, with its own dark stories to tell.<br><br>As Agnes becomes tangled in controversies stirred by her own discovery, she must face the deep history of what she has unearthed. Equally alive to post-Brexit England and Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, <i>Bog Queen</i> connects across time two young women learning to harness their strange strengths, in a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.</p>