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Bog queen : a novel / Anna North.

North, Anna, (author.).

Summary:

"From the author of instant New York Times bestseller Outlawed, a gripping, epoch-bridging story of a young anthropologist's monumental discovery, and the clash of civilizations it sets off-both ancient and contemporary-over the fate of the land that holds us. When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. Agnes has always been more comfortable with the dead than the living, but this body is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved. The mystery of the Iron Age body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: the archaeologists who want to study the surrounding bog, the peat-cutters who want to profit from the land's resources, and a group of environmental activists and neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place and that the moss-layered bog-a marvel of carbon capture on a warming planet-be left undisturbed. Then there's the moss itself; a complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell. As Agnes is drawn into the controversy stirred by the body and its habitat, she must face not only the deep history of what she has unearthed, but also the relationships she has forsworn in her bid for independence. Vividly flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with climate urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781635579666 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 264 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes discussion questions.
Subject: Bog bodies > England, North West > Fiction.
Bog conservation > England, North West > Fiction.
Bogs > England, North West > Fiction.
Celts > England, North West > Fiction.
Druids and druidism > England, North West > Fiction.
Women forensic anthropologists > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 2 total copies.
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