- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529956535
- Length: 384 pages
- Price: £9.99
Barbara Erskine, Sunday Times Bestselling AuthorBrigid’s book is a masterpiece of poetic reimagining, woven into an intricate, otherworldly, complex and dramatic novel that held me spellbound.
Lucy Holland, author of SISTERSONGA rich, visceral fever dream unafraid to take you to the darkest corners of myth and magic... always powerful, the story is conveyed in language that branches, metamorphoses, and invites you to follow it into the mists of medieval myth.
Emma van StraatenI adored everything about The Bloody Branch. I revelled in the absolutely exquisite prose - pure poetry - and its intensely atmospheric world shimmering with folklore and magic. I reread lines multiple times, shocked at their beauty. Shifting between violence and tenderness, protest and surrender, this haunting, sensual debut had me holding my breath, firmly under its spell.
Anya Bergman, author of THE WITCHES OF VARDOA magnificent folkloric retelling rich with passion and relevance for our modern world. Every single page captured me, heart and soul, as I bore witness to female solidarity & strength, mankind's destruction and violence and the endurance and power of nature... Lowe interweaves folklore, history and magic through lush prose and compelling storytelling. Her powers of description are breathtaking.... Stunning!
Emily Cooper, author of SEASON OF FEARAn astonishing feat of reimagined myth - lush, wild and evocative. Dripping in beauty and brutality, The Bloody Branch is spellbinding from the first page.
About Brigid Lowe
Brigid Lowe grew up in a remote Welsh-speaking community on Ynys Môn, with her younger sister and Irish immigrant parents. She now lives with her children in that part of Scotland known as Yr Hen Ogledd – The Old North – formerly joined with Wales in one Cumbric nation. She studied literature at Bangor, completed a doctorate at Oxford, and went on to teach and research at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities, publishing a book and many essays on the art of fiction. Brigid traces her descent from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. She takes photographs of flowers, forages her food, clambers pinnacles, and swims in ice and caves and bottomless pools.
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