**Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023** **Chosen as a book to watch out for in 2023 by
The Times Observer Guardian Irish TImes and Scotsman** 'An epic the north has long deserved'
FINANCIAL TIMES 'A sensational piece of storytelling . A singular and significant achievement'
GUARDIAN 'Marvellous artful enchanted' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Cements Myers's standing as one of
our finest and most deftly imaginative writers' I NEWS The triumphant new novel from the
Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing Cuddy is a bold and
experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert unofficial patron saint of the
North of England. Incorporating poetry prose play diary and real historical accounts to
create a novel like no other Cuddy straddles historical eras - from the first
Christian-slaying Viking invaders of the holy island of Lindisfarne in the 8th century to a
contemporary England defined by class and austerity. Along the way we meet brewers and masons
archers and academics monks and labourers their visionary voices and stories echoing through
their ancestors and down the ages. And all the while at the centre sits Durham Cathedral and
the lives of those who live and work around this place of pilgrimage - their dreams desires
connections and communities.
