Brigid Lowe - Böcker

'A masterpiece... an intricate, otherworldly, complex and dramatic novel that held me spellbound.' Barbara Erskine, Sunday Times Bestselling AuthorThree figures loom from the gathering dark of Britain's oldest story: a queen risen from slavery, a sorceress of the moon, and flowers imprisoned in woman's form.Their fates are bound together by the cruelty of a magician whose hungers scar the land.The Bloody Branch retells their story from the inside, revealing an epic not of men’s wars and conquests but of women’s pain and ecstasy, birth and transformation — flesh, flower and blood held in animation by the eerie power of the land. Women suffer alone, but fight back together.Brigid Lowe’s dark, sensuous and unsettling debut casts ancient light on desire, sex and our relationship with nature, as these original heroines blossom into fierce new life.'Rich with passion and relevance for our modern world... Stunning! Anya Bergman, author of The Witches of Vardo‘A rich, visceral fever dream’ Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong'I adored everything about The Bloody Branch... this haunting, sensual debut had me holding my breath, firmly under its spell.' Emma van Straaten, author of This Immaculate Body

*After Brigid Lowe’s world is upended, Scotland becomes her home. Its icy, wild waters a place of a visceral relief. Baptising herself into this new life, she determines to swim the country’s thirty thousand lochs. To plunge into this landscape in the hopes of gaining a fluid sense of herself and who she might become.And so Brigid’s loch adventures begin: stepping into ice and caves and sacred springs, she swims with birds, conger eels and seals, across forest and mountain and moor, alone and with her children in tow. And as she comes to know these secretive pools, with their vaulting depths and softer shallows, she walks the line between recklessness and safety, discovering new edges of pain and pleasure, of strength and endurance.Shiver is a love-letter to Caledonia – its flowers and rocks, its bogs and legends and hills – and to its chill waters, which swept Brigid off her feet only to carry her back home again.