**Winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award**
**Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2023** **Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022**
'Oxblood shows us that there are few places literature can't take us if the writer is brave
enough and gifted enough' FRANCIS SPUFFORD 'The master of northern noir' SUNDAY TIMES
'Brilliant' DENISE MINA 'An absolute triumph' GUARDIAN 'Powerful and so beautifully written'
HARRIET TYCE Sunday Times-bestselling author of BLOOD ORANGE
________________________________________________________________ Wythenshawe South Manchester.
1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld now the men are dead leaving three
generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence harbouring an unregistered baby
and the ghost of a murdered lover. Over the course of a few days Nedra Carol and Jan must
each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives and seize the
opportunity to break the cycle for good.
_______________________________________________________________ 'If I read a better novel than
Oxblood in 2022 it'll be a blinding year for fiction' JOSEPH KNOX 'A propulsive bountiful
fearless work of art' OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE 'One of the most powerful and urgent writers of our
times' DAVID PEACE
