**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.
